“You think Mohammedans can’t join the Yuva Vahini, but they can, and they do.” In April 2017, I met some of the HYV’s new recruits first-hand in Tindwari, a town…
“Whether it’s the HYV, the Bajrang Dal or the VHP, we’re all working for the BJP, aren’t we?” My first official interview with the Hindu Yuva Vahini was…
“I would never want to get married, ever. You lose all your freedom. Why would I ever do it?” I first met Seema Giri in 2015, at…
Up-close with Banda members of the “socio-cultural” organization founded by the now-sitting Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, in a special five-part series for VICE India. It’s the closest you’ll get…
Khabar Lahariya gets under the skin of a very peculiar caste-based practice in Chitrakoot that turns reservation on its head. Video Report It was in 2016 in Ahmedabad that the…
The Chief Minister’s recent Bundelkhand visit had in store a few unexpected shocks for its people. On his second visit to Bundelkhand – considered to be one of the most…
Banda Rape Survivor on Behalf of Unnao Rape Survivor My name is Sheelu Nishad, and I live in Shahbazpur, a village in Banda, in Bundelkhand. What’s happening in…
As part of our Yogi ka Ek Saal: Mangal ya Dangal special series, we check out the bovine situation and come out, not surprised, knowing who’s really building the cow…
Reporting on the play of politics in the demolishment of statues around Uttar Pradesh “This is an attack on ideologies, that much should be clear.” R.P. Chaudhuri, manager, Sanghmitra Baudhvihar,…
On Republic Day, we hark back to the time we went around the kasbahs of Banda asking about the man known as the Father of the Constitution It is…
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