In Koilihai, a village in the drought-prone region of Bundelkhand, lives a woman named Chamela, a Koli Dalit. Over time, Chamela grew weary of walking every day to a distant…
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Access, Redressal & Finance in Uttar Pradesh : The Farmers in Rural Uttar Pradesh
द्वारा खबर लहरिया March 15, 2021In this fifth video of a six-part series, we follow different farmers in rural Uttar Pradesh to understand the frequency and magnitude of incomes they earn from agriculture. The video also…
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Deep impact: COVID-19, surveillance technology and marginalised identities
द्वारा खबर लहरिया November 20, 2020This essay is the culmination of a special collaboration between Khabar Lahariya and the Internet Democracy Project, that aimed to bring ground realities relating to technology use and related surveillance…
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Rural Households Still Plagued by Sanitation Sorrows
द्वारा खबर लहरिया August 23, 2020Last week, the results of the fifth edition of the nationwide annual cleanliness survey, ‘Swachh Survekshan 2020,’ were announced amidst great fanfare at the Swachh Mahotsav organized by the Ministry…
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The Women Farmers Battle a Pandemic on top of Systemic Exclusion
द्वारा खबर लहरिया July 8, 2020Just like the migrant worker, the image of the farmer is always thought of as a man. In times of Covid-19, Khabar Lahariya maps rural Uttar Pradesh’s ‘mahila kisans arduous…
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The rocky road of development
द्वारा खबर लहरिया March 2, 2020After Prime Minister Modi’s much-anticipated visit to Chitrakoot over the weekend, looking back at how Chief Minister Adityanath prepared a week ago. On February 17, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath…
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People are dying due to the cold in Chitrakoot, where are the blankets promised by the Uttar Pradesh government?
द्वारा खबर लहरिया January 20, 2020While Chitrakoot locals are left shivering in the cold, where is the 27 lakhs allotted to protection measures promised by the UP government? Early mornings are a struggle…
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Injecting life or poison?
द्वारा खबर लहरिया January 7, 2020Are you eating slow poison in the guise of green vegetables? Kalinjar in Bundelkhand has been known for its great crop of vegetables. But the growing demand for…
An unregulated stone-crushing industry is turning Bundelkhand to dust. “My land has become infertile. Earlier I could feed my family with what I sowed, like wheat and chana etc,”…
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Not just the flood victims, but rescuers too left in the lurch
द्वारा खबर लहरिया November 29, 2019“We were on duty round-the-clock and for 24 hours a day, for the 23 days that the floods ravaged the affected villages. We would not even get time off to…