Khabar Lahariya Managing Director and Co-Founder Disha Mullick writes on a peculiar case of medical apathy from the badlands, in a special article for Indian Quarterly The last time Uma’s…
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Examining the taboos around male vasectomy, from rural Mahoba “I kept having children in short periods of time,” says Mankunwar bashfully, explaining her reasons for having undergone a…
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New Mothers Forced to Squat Outdoors
द्वारा खबर लहरिया March 11, 2019The future to a healthy rural maternal health scenario seems locked, literally. A report from the delivery ward of a Mahoba PHC “This door is locked, see?” points out…
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Celebrating Trans Rights this Women’s Day
द्वारा खबर लहरिया March 8, 2019How a transgender weaver in Varanasi is changing social norms by being herself “I spent my childhood with girls, and I never thought of myself as a boy, I…
A 360-degree in and from the Kinnar akhada at the Kumbh fair 2019 “Every kumbh that has happened till date has been incomplete because of the absence of kinnars,”…
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Khabar Lahariya brings women’s voices to rural media in India
द्वारा खबर लहरिया March 1, 2019The International Press Institute (IPI) welcomes Khabar Lahariya into the network with a background piece Almost three decades ago, in 1993, the government of India launched a women’s literacy programme…
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A Sati Rumour, an Anti-Climax, & the Irony of Breaking News
द्वारा खबर लहरिया February 13, 2019Khabar Lahariya on the tail of what burning hot fake news really looks like, in the Hindi heartland. ‘If only the police hadn’t come. I would’ve tied her up with…
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The Triple Talaq Mandate: Bundelkhand votes a complex vote for the Triple Talaq Bill, even as it stays suspended in the Parliament
द्वारा खबर लहरिया January 10, 2019The issue of triple talaqis back in the national hot seat as the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2018 – informally known as the Triple Talaq bill…
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Inside a Sterilization Camp in Mahoba
द्वारा खबर लहरिया January 4, 2019The horrors that await the aftermath of an incentivized family planning programme In Kabrai Mahoba, the Community Health Centre was recently abuzz with activity. Two men hauled an unconscious…
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Women at Work
द्वारा Disha Mullick January 3, 2019In Part Two of MeToo Bundelkhand – a special Khabar Lahariya series on unspoken silences surrounding horrendous crimes against women in rural Bundelkhand, and the normalization of these silences –…