Back in UP’s Banda on Shramik Special, migrant labourers look back on long journey home Maneuvering the lockdown, contradictory government mandates and the always looming threat of both the virus…
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COVID 19, The Last Mile: Special dispatches from the grassroots, brought to you by KL’s reporters
द्वारा Disha Mullick March 30, 2020What can we tell you that is new? The situation is bad in rural areas. The poor are most affected. There’s so much fake news. What we can do is…
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In the Name of Humanity
द्वारा खबर लहरिया February 24, 2020Faizabad’s Chacha Sharif, who earns his living as a cycle mechanic, has been performing last rites for thousands of unclaimed bodies “I didn’t want anyone to suffer the same…
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When floods upend life as you know it
द्वारा खबर लहरिया November 26, 2019Gulabkali’s family owns three bigha land in Chitrakoot district’s Mawai Kala village. In 2019, her father-in-law’s demise and the floods have delivered a double blow to the family. Their crops…
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How Two Girls From Mahoba Are Keeping Ancient Culture Alive While Breaking Gender Norms
द्वारा खबर लहरिया November 16, 2019Two Girls, Diksha Yadav, a young girl, all of 8 years of age, dons a turban and suit over her frock, and also a red teeka on her forehead, as…
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Banda’s historic Kalinjar Mela will touch the skies this year
द्वारा खबर लहरिया November 13, 2019While our news and social media feeds talk of conquest and nationhood, here’s a story from the hinterland of an age-old festival, Kalinjar fort Mela, celebrating Chandela valor in Kalinjar,…
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Where Rama was exiled – Chitrakoot’s past and present history of communal harmony
द्वारा खबर लहरिया October 26, 2019This Diwali, as the whole country waits for the Supreme Court decision on the long drawn out and polarising Ramjanambhoomi dispute, can we think of cultural heritage of Uttar Pradesh…
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‘A Woman With No Rights Will Keep Giving – Until She Dies’
द्वारा खबर लहरिया October 19, 2019Gayatri Devi is a farmer and an Auxiliary Nurse Midwife hailing from Manikpur village in Chitrakoot,district of U.P. The strength and confidence she exudes as an independent , single mother…
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Durga Puja : Artificial ponds to help protect the Ken river
द्वारा खबर लहरिया October 8, 2019River pollution due to idol immersion during popular festivals such as Durga Puja is a problem that is increasingly not just limited to big cities but small-town India too. Stricter…
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“They pluck out hearts of children”—how fake news is plaguing the hinterland
द्वारा खबर लहरिया September 21, 2019Through the thick, humid months of July and August, an unverified clip raced across social media and WhatsApp accounts in northern India, featuring mutilated bodies and organs, purportedly part of…