An examination of sanctioned budgets for the chosen faithful, U.P, style, with a visit to the local dharmik site Lakshman Pahadi, where shiny cable cars are the new attraction…
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MCC violated the same day it sets in. A report from Varanasi. On March 10, the 2019 Lok Sabha election schedule was announced, thus bringing into force the Model Code…
A 2016 storm stripped this village in Lalitpur of electricity. They’ve been living in the dark since. “The pole was damaged in 2016 because of a storm and since…
New P.M. scheme has takers, even if cynical On February 15 this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a new scheme, the Pradhan Mantra Shram Yogi Mandhan Pension, with a…
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Lok Sabha elections 2019 | My first vote
द्वारा खबर लहरिया March 11, 2019Special Hindustan Times series profiling first time voters, My First Vote, features 20-year-old Khabar Lahariya journalist from Ayodhya Kumkum Yadav Like many other young adults in the country, Kumkum…
Systemic failures of the country’s largest employment scheme leads to isolated villages in Bundelkhand, such as Kumhedi in Lalitpur The recently released state budget for Uttar Pradesh allocated Rs.…
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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,”…
For farmers already reeling from crop Failure in Lalitpur According to Pappu, a farmer in the village of Leheren in the Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh, only 10% of…