When activists from the PACS-Programme-supported Institute of Homeo Care and Research (IHCR) went to Karishat village in Udvant Nagar block of Bihar’s Bhojpur district, to check freshly-issued job cards under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), the first question they asked was how many women in the village could operate guns. “Most women can,” was the deadpan answer from the predominantly male gathering