Video Report Still reeling from that semi-final? Prep for the Sunday final with local fans and players from the hinterland, who’re kicking it hard this World Cup season. It…
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Video Report As cinemas go, Kumkum Talkies in Panna wears a run-down look. Another one of those quaint single-screen small-town theatres which are running empty. Who wants…
Shifting our gaze away from Drought and Desperation for just a wee bit, in a nod to the other D that marks Bundelkhand – Dance! Meet Sahil, a youngster from…
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Rural finance: Death by ponzi scams; the ripping off of the unemployed youth
द्वारा खबर लहरिया July 6, 2018Somewhere between the humble chai wala and pakoda-selling memes, is a young man who graduated, slogged through forms and applications, blew off a little bit of savings on bribes, and yet found himself…
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Rs 500, 10 sacks of sand, and two sacks of cement: What villagers near Varanasi are being given to build toilets
द्वारा खबर लहरिया July 6, 2018Can you produce a functional toilet with just Rs 500? If this sounds like a possible game show idea, in Varanasi district’s Jairampur village–bang in the centre of the Prime…
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Mahoba, UP, floats in water ‘dark zone’
द्वारा खबर लहरिया July 5, 2018Video Story On 13 October 2014, Mahoba district in Uttar Pradesh was declared a ‘dark zone’. The term conjures up images of gloom, despair, and perhaps…
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Rural finance: The parallel economy of the Bundeli middlemen
द्वारा खबर लहरिया June 30, 2018The trouble with middlemen in Bundelkhand is that… If this was the mandatory essay topic in schools in the hinterland, instead of how Swachch Bharat Abhiyan has changed their lives, the students…
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Rural finance: Subsidies, entitlements and the problem of digital linkages in Bundelkhand
द्वारा खबर लहरिया June 30, 2018When Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered yet another impressive speech at the global conference on cyberspace held in Delhi in November 2017, he had the media gushing. ‘We believe this…
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No medicines, doctors or staff: A Faizabad primary health centre that is located in the middle of a forest
द्वारा खबर लहरिया June 29, 2018Video Story A dilapidated building in the middle of a heavily wooded forest may sound like the beginning of a horror movie, but for the residents of…
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In MP’s Panna, a village grapples with the lack of potable water, against the pre-existing twist of untouchability
द्वारा खबर लहरिया June 28, 2018Video Story “Koi Ajaygarh mein, koi Panna mein, koi Kartal mein, jagah jagah mein log pareshan hain (In Ajaygarh, Panna, Kartal, everywhere people are struggling)”, says Vineeta,…