“My ex-husband always found the hard-earned money that I tried to save by hiding it in jars or inside furniture. And he gambled it away. If I tried to stop…

KL Hatke’s new series is an attempt to hold space for stories of women from Bundelkhand and beyond; women who don’t come from privilege but are pushing boundaries in their…

What does the workplace look like for women in rural India? This photo essay emerged as an attempt to answer the question; and the short answer is: every space, public…

This week, we are taking you back in time to revisit Khabar Lahariya’s golden era of print. The December 2003 edition has it all – an exposé on quacks parading…

When we were revamping Sound Fury and 4G, the precursor to KL Hatke, the goal was to offer multimedia content to our subscribers apart from the deep dives and long…

How have Panchayati Raj elections evolved post-independence? And how can they make or break a political party’s future in the state? Over the years Panchayat elections have become crucial for…

Despite its undeniable impact in relation to the very ethos of independence, urban India remains largely oblivious to the functioning of a panchayat; Social Science textbooks mostly offer a reductive…

In Hatke’s first audio exclusive, we take a closer look at the lack of male involvement in family planning and why the emphasis has been on methods for women, making…

The otherwise dry, rugged and parched landscape of Bundelkhand undergoes a vibrant lush green transformation with the onset of the monsoon – arguably the most awaited and celebrated season in…

This year, on 31st May, Khabar Lahariya turned 20, completing two decades of groundbreaking rural journalism, enabling feminist reporting by questioning structures of power and inequity, and  training rural women…