In October 2018, Khabar Lahariya kick-started an initiative around documenting women’s voices that stay silenced in the name of sexual harassment and violence, spearheading the important missing conversations around…
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Up-Close with a Dalit woman candidate running for office this #LokSabhaElections One strong mid-week highlight of a high-powered Lok Sabha elections season, besides that highly publicized non-political interview that…
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Dimple Yadav notwithstanding, women are rarely seen as promising candidates by most political parties and the leaders at the helm. A report on the skewed Math, from interior U.P., as…
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Right Here, Right Now: Jan Jaati Status
द्वारा खबर लहरिया April 23, 2019The Kol Adivasi community of Chitrakoot declares a strike on voting rights until their demands from the early 90’s are met A bubbling-under resistance movement is brewing strong…
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Dispatch from Bundelkhand: The Dalit Vote
द्वारा खबर लहरिया April 15, 2019From amidst the bylanes of bastis duly visited every five years, Khabar Lahariya conjures up an atmospheric exit poll from the hinterland There is a brick waterway, perhaps…
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The Unspoken Dynamics between Seva & Mewa
द्वारा खबर लहरिया April 5, 2019Khabar Lahariya vox-pops the Adivasi women of a hamlet in Chitrakoot, on the upcoming elections Bargadh village in Mau tehsil in Chitrakoot is large and bustling, especially for a town…
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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…