Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s sentence has brought onto the fore what has been part of an inescapable destiny for large swathes of our country. “Apni bahu beti ki chotiyaan bachaye.”…
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The Curious Case of the Cook in Lalitpur
द्वारा खबर लहरिया September 1, 2017Hard lines drawn along castes in Bundeli villages often give birth to bizarre situations such as this one – a cook who cooks, but no one eats what she cooks.…
Reviving the Epic Shit series, in the wake of the recent spate of infant deaths in Gorakhpur, which has brought rural health back on the media map. (And nowhere else.) …
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Students? Present, Ma’am; Textbooks? Absent, Ma’am!
द्वारा खबर लहरिया August 18, 2017The farcical state of primary education in rural Bundelkhand resonates in this story from Banda. “Today, he’ll take the Math book home. Tomorrow, I will.” A peculiar sharing business is…
- Englishऔरतें काम परताजा खबरेंबाँदाबुंदेलखंड
Women & Freedom: An Independence Day Special
द्वारा खबर लहरिया August 11, 2017Kavita, Khabar Lahariya Digital Head and anchor of The Kavita Show, speaks at length about freedom, women, and the freedom of women, in the latest episode of her show, out…
Behind-the-scenes on the shiksha mitra protests that are holding the country’s most populous state to ransom. On July 25, the Supreme Court ruling upholding the High Court verdict on “shiksha-mitras”…
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The Myth of the “Shauch-Mukt” Village
द्वारा खबर लहरिया July 28, 2017Or the Joke that is the rural chapter of the Swachch Bharat Abhiyaan Akhilesh Kumar is a young, charming Block Coordinator of the Swacch Bharat Mission at Badokhar Khurd block…
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Adarsh Gram Yojna: On-Ground Realities
द्वारा खबर लहरिया July 21, 2017Forget the new state government shouting on about development and progress, what about the one village they’d promised to take under their wings? The Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojna was launched…
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The Woman Pradhan: Lip Service to Equal Rights?
द्वारा खबर लहरिया July 14, 2017There’s a reason we’re calling it a dhakosla – look it up, it’s a loaded word that rises above its English counterparts of farce, sham, tamasha, something intended to fool…
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The Agrarian Crisis, Women Farmers, and Bundelkhand
द्वारा खबर लहरिया July 7, 2017In which Gulabi Gang Commander Sampat Pal hijacked our Facebook Live proceedings and a grown man shed tears. At first, we wondered why it felt so liberating, cathartic, much-needed, seeing…