Halfway through world’s largest count, Indian enumerators capture realities of 1.4b people

NEW DELHI: A month before 3 million enumerators started visiting Indian households door-to-door, Priyanka Kumari taught them how to convince people to answer truthfully, as they faced dozens of questions about their livelihood, food and whether they had drinking water and toilets at home. A teacher in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur District, Kumari has been training enumerators since March and has visited multiple families in her area with them. “We witness a new reality when we are on the ground. We learn