Twenty-four years ago, a group of women in Chitrakoot started a newspaper in a language the rest of the press had decided wasn’t worth printing in. It cost Rs. 2.50.…

Since 2022, nearly half of India’s 84.9 lakh school dropouts have been girls.  We followed them home. Kajal’s wedding was on April 20, 2025. She was eighteen. When Khabar Lahariya…

As Holi- the festival of colours approaches, loudspeakers are already being mounted on trucks in the small towns of Banda and Chitrakoot in northern India. The volume wars that now…

This Valentine’s Day, KL Hatke listens to young women from smaller cities and towns as they share what love looks like in their lives. Candid conversations with women who are…

Every morning across villages and small towns of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, alarm clocks ring not for offices but for books. Young people wake up to the same…

In this edition, we meet Chandrakali Devi, Taajvi Begum, and Rinki, three women whose work holds their homes together. We return with the fourth edition of They Mean Business, a…

  Yesha Tshering Paul details how gendered disinformation operates in rural India, where online and offline threats are one and the same. The threat thrives in a hybrid ecosystem, spreading…

As world leaders gather in Brazil for COP30 (November 10-22) to discuss implementation and action, particularly around adaptation, just transition, and climate finance, the reality on the ground in India…

A defining focus of KL Hatke is  to understand how local government institutions and systems shape rural life, not just on paper but in practice. In this dispatch, we explore…

In Chitrakoot, a journalist starts his day arranging biscuit packets in his small shop before strapping on his phone and riding into the field. He isn’t chasing headlines for glory…