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 –…
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“Who Killed Neetu Shukla?
द्वारा Pooja Pande December 31, 2018“In Part One of MeToo Bundelkhand – a special Khabar Lahariya Series, and a Firstpost exclusive, on the silences surrounding horrendous crimes against women in rural Bundelkhand, and the unspoken normalization…
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Women & the Vote
द्वारा Pooja Pande December 14, 2018Asking where the women are, on buzzing counting day in Madhya Pradesh On December 11, the country’s eyes were on Madhya Pradesh as 51 polling centres crunched the numbers of…
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#MeToo Reaches Rural India: ‘Men Have Stopped Sending Us Porn’
द्वारा खबर लहरिया October 25, 2018While journalists in cities, more so in English media, speak out against sexual harassment at the workplace, far into the hinterland, female journalists are beginning to lose their patience…
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MeToo Too Late
द्वारा खबर लहरिया October 18, 2018How caste and gender plays into sexual crimes in the hinterland, comes forth shockingly, in this story of a rape reported “too late”, in a Chitrakoot village One…