Exam pressure takes a toll in Banda Shubham, a Class 10 student from the village Laumar, Chilla, was found hanging in his room on 20 February 2019. “He was…
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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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Solution to Malnutrition? Free Chicks!
द्वारा खबर लहरिया February 26, 2019The inner workings of an absurd scheme, from a Chitrakoot village. In May 2018, the villages of Koniya and Bargah in Chitrakoot saw a unique kind of government welfare…
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Ground realities of the 2019 Swacch Survekshan in UP
द्वारा खबर लहरिया February 21, 2019The 2019 Swacch Survekshan was conducted between 4th and 31st January in 4,237 towns and cities across the country to evaluate their sanitation and cleanliness. The supposedly largest cleanliness survey in the…
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Aftermath of a Tragedy: A meeting both somber and enraged, with the family of a Pulwama martyr in Varanasi
द्वारा खबर लहरिया February 19, 2019On February 14, more than 40 Indian CRPF personnel were killed in a suicide attack by the Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad in Pulwama, which lies in India-administered Kashmir. 11 of…
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An open letter to the Minister of Mines, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar
द्वारा खबर लहरिया February 15, 2019How glorious greeting the sun gives the mountain. Why not us? Where mountains attach a lot importance for the people living in urban areas, deprived off the life they have…
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Ayodhya ka Romancenama: From Love Letters to 4G-Enabled
द्वारा खबर लहरिया February 14, 2019On Valentine’s Day, Khabar Lahariya maps the changing arc of love, sex, dhokha in a part of Uttar Pradesh that almost always makes news for other reasons ‘Kisi bhi Ladki…
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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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Caution: Never Get Pregnant in Banda
द्वारा खबर लहरिया February 11, 2019Janani Suraksha Yojna, PMJAY & the Cracks in the Maternal Rural Health System: The Case Study of Uma and her Stillborn Child January 15 marked Makar Sankranti on the festive…
A maternal health scheme faces gaps and breakdowns, leading to zero deliverance for those who’re entitled to it “My wife’s delivery date was 9th June, 2018. Since then, I’ve visited…