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…
Summers are early when you’re a Dalit village inhabitant with a clogged hand pump for your local water source In Banda district’s Palra village in hinterland Uttar Pradesh,…
Vox-Popping Bundelkhand on the ultimate democratic choice this #LokSabhaElections2019 900 million people vote this general election, the largest election in the world, for 543 seats and at over…
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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…
There’s a unique reason for a village in Uttar Pradesh choosing not to vote this time: Their local bank, it seems, has disappeared! Women and men, both young…
Amidst local M.P.’s high voltage political drama, we visit his adopted village Bhairon Prasad Mishra, the Banda-Chitrakoot MP, recently sat in protest outside the headquarters of his party, the…
The curious case of an overnight poisoning in the lake and how it threatens an entire community On the morning on March 27, residents of the village…
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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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Of Tulsidas and Memorials
द्वारा खबर लहरिया April 12, 2019Another site of religious importance gaining importance as elections dates draw close in Bundelkhand Nestled on the banks of river Yamuna, the small town of Rajapur in Chitrakoot,…