Communities experiment with new ways to protect Meghalaya’s old caves

By Jyoti Thakur, Pratik Chakarborty It’s an autumn morning at Mawmluh Cave, near Cherrapunji, in Meghalaya’s north-eastern hills. At the entrance, 27-year-old Milton Marak switches on his headlamp, and leads a group into the darkness. There are no electric lights inside. Only the beams from visitor…