Looking Back, Moving Forward- 20 years of Khabar Lahariya!

How do you capture a force of nature that’s been in the making for 20 years (and counting)? The revolutionizing news waves of Khabar Lahariya have, in the past few years, stormed the digital world, its ripples reaching out beyond some of India’s most off-the-map geographies, beyond the country’s most populous state, mingling into the global oceans and international waters. But the origin story from two decades ago, is micro. Very, very micro. A village in Chitrakoot, located in back-of-beyond Bundelkhand where a bunch of women planned and executed one of the longest-standing interventions in the history of news and news-making.  If the valleys of Chambal were until then known only for bandits and outlaws, Khabar Lahariya began changing this