Growing up in Banda, Nazni did not cook, unlike most young girls. She recalls her initiation into adulthood through food. When she turned fourteen, relatives came calling and she was…
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Episode 39- What Makes Grameen Mental Health: Unravelling rural maansik swasthya (part 2)
द्वारा खबर लहरिया May 31, 2021“Field work has come to a halt because of Corona, so has talking with people outside. Ghar se bahar nikalna, wo hi apne aap mein bahut badi baat hai (Being…
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Episode 38- What Makes Grameen Mental Health: Unravelling rural maansik swasthya (part 1)
द्वारा खबर लहरिया May 22, 2021In September 2017 KL met 12 year old Ritisha Kesharwani, a young dancer in Karwi Chitrakoot. Ritisha showed off her skills, grooving and doing backflips to Dil Disco Disco Kare…
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Episode- 37: Panchayat Polls in the time of a Pandemic
द्वारा खबर लहरिया April 30, 2021The pandemic has brought a reckoning to our doorsteps. So say several prominent editorials in these past weeks. At Khabar Lahariya, reporting from the villages and small-towns considered synonymous with…
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The Iconography of Dalit Resistance: Contestations over Ambedkar Statues in U.P
द्वारा खबर लहरिया April 16, 2021In Pachokhar village of Atarra, Banda the crickets are loud even in daytime. After midnight fell on 15th June last year, when the last person tired by this strange new…
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Episode 35- One Year Since the Long Walk Home: Banda’s migrant workers on their year after lockdown
द्वारा खबर लहरिया April 1, 2021One year ago Aravind Yadav took a very long walk. From Lucknow which had turned inwards into a city meant only for its inhabitants — to Kamasin in Banda, Uttar…
In a village named Koilihai in a region known for perennial thirst, lives a woman named Chamela. The parched patch of land spreads across two states, culturally defying administrative boundaries.…
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The Sinister Heart of Prem Prasang: How the label of love affair smooths over gendered violence
द्वारा खबर लहरिया February 27, 2021In the second part of our Valentine Month special, we delve into the phenomenon of ‘prem-prasang’ or love-affair, a label that sweeps sinister things under the carpet in U.P. “If…
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A Suitable Shaadi: Trade, Traditions & Tamasha in Bundeli Weddings
द्वारा खबर लहरिया February 13, 2021On Valentine’s Day, Khabar Lahariya brings you our unruly meditations on the weddings we have known, Bundelkhandi style! In July 2019 Khabar Lahariya went to a ‘special Bundelkhandi wedding’. We…
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State of the (Republic) COW: Bovine Dispatches from Uttar Pradesh
द्वारा खबर लहरिया January 25, 2021We begin with death. In Bundelkhand when cattle die, it is not customary to let the bodies remain in the village. The carcasses are deposited on the outskirts, and a…