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…
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Clicks, Rumors, and Control: Fighting Gender Disinformation in Rural India
द्वारा खबर लहरिया January 30, 2026In rural India, a woman’s assertion of agency online often triggers rumours and digital attacks, a pattern surfaced through observations from our roundtable with women activists and paralegals. When a…
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A Year of Learning, Listening and Becoming
द्वारा खबर लहरिया December 31, 20252025 arrived before we could even brace ourselves. We learned, once again, how decisions made far away can shake a small, hyperlocal newsroom like ours. A major project we were…
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Building Feminist Digital Infrastructures in the Age of Gendered Disinformation
द्वारा खबर लहरिया December 11, 2025If you’ve been following along, you’ve heard from journalists, fact-checkers, and communities navigating hostile digital spaces. If you’re just joining us, catch up on our previous dispatches: field reporting from…
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“A more equitable internet would be one where I’m not sexualized just because I chose to be visible.”
द्वारा KL Hatke December 4, 2025Yesha 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…
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Gendered Realities: Speaking Back to Disinformation
द्वारा खबर लहरिया October 29, 2025“Safety Should Be Baked Into the Design of Technology from the Beginning” Rohini Lakshané cuts through the confusion: gendered disinformation is not trolling, it is targeted propaganda. She traces how…
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Inside the Slow Machinery of Local Power: How Rural Governance Works in Practice
द्वारा KL Hatke September 30, 2025A 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…
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Cast(e) Away: Histories of Displacement and Survival
द्वारा KL Hatke May 30, 2025In our continued exploration of Dalit bastis and their histories, we spent time in Harijanpur and Chamrauha in Uttar Pradesh this week. In the dense forests near Manikpur district, a…
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Who Names, Who Belongs: Caste, Memory, and the Making of Fokatpura
द्वारा KL Hatke April 29, 2025Why does living off scraps become a necessity? Who decides whose labour is worth discarding, whose hunger is an afterthought? And more crucially—why do these so-called ‘Fokatpuras’ always end up…
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Bundelkhand’s Folk Power: Alha-Ballads of Bravery
द्वारा खबर लहरिया April 11, 2025Ballads and bardic chronicles have long been a defining feature of storytelling traditions across the Indian subcontinent. While love stories like Heer-Ranjha have captured hearts in Punjab, Rajputana and Bundelkhand…