LAUKARIA (West Champaran), April 1 -- Found ubiquitously along streams and other water bodies in the forest of Valmiki Tiger Reserve (VTR), Pater (paat grass), a wild plant as known in local parlance, costs nothing. But a posse of women in Tharu-dominated region of Bihar, after learning the nuances of making exquisite household articles with the plant, have graduated into a new world by becoming "artisan from simple homemaker" and opened a new chapter of self-reliance in a West Champaran village here....