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Tribal Instinct | The Social Warriors

Taking up social work, Mittal launched the Vicharta Samuday Samarthan Manch (VSSM) in 2010 and worked tirelessly to win Gujarat's nomadic and denotified tribes rights as Indian citizens.

She could very well have crafted a career in advertising or the electronic media after completing a course in mass communication. But Mittal Patel chose to tread a path less travelled. Taking up social work,

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