On a cool day in February, on a ground strewn with rose and marigold petals, two swarthy pehelwans engage in intense combat. One is thick and solid, in a…
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Episode 9: From Benaras to Banda, Women Are Working Out
द्वारा खबर लहरिया February 28, 2020Kiran Dua wears sparkly red bangles over her workout gloves, and a bindi and earrings over her polyester sports-shirt. Her arms bulge as she easily chest presses two dumbbells. “Give…
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Episode 8- The Book of Love: Interfaith Relationships Light A Secular Path
द्वारा खबर लहरिया February 15, 2020Zarina* saw Abhishek* for the first time in the music room of her school in Kanpur. She remembers the exact date in 2012, because it was Teacher’s Day and she…
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A Tale of Two Universities: Student Politics, Caste and Compromises
द्वारा खबर लहरिया January 30, 2020“This is how it happens during elections,” Priya* tells us during an interview in Banda, Uttar Pradesh. She’s an MSc Physics graduate from Atarra College, Bundelkhand University, but as a…
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Episode 6- A Dream of Flight: Innovators in Rural Aviation
द्वारा खबर लहरिया January 14, 2020It’s Makar Sankranti – also known as Sakarat or Khichdi in Bundelkhand. People are taking dips in the Ganga; making special ladoos, vadas, and other dishes; and buying fresh gud…
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Episode 5: Dhamaal India: Small-town Showbiz dreams in the decade of Youtube
द्वारा खबर लहरिया December 21, 2019As the decade ends, and young people across the country spill into the streets in anger against a state that doesn’t seem to know how to speak to them, other…
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Episode 4: Those footsteps behind you: girls, crime and punishment in the heartland
द्वारा खबर लहरिया December 10, 2019The time 20-year-old Gudiya’s husband threw hot oil on her face and tried to cut off her nose with a sickle, it was because Shiv Prasad was outraged that she…
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Episode 3: How to Run Like a Rural Girl: some myth busting about girls and sport
द्वारा खबर लहरिया November 23, 2019In this Episode, we crawl our villages and small towns for girls who have pushed – and keep pushing – the boundaries of what they are meant to do or…
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The thing that gets you glory- what charges youth politics in rural India? Episode 2
द्वारा खबर लहरिया November 14, 2019Lok sabha ,In the heat and dust of the district court in Karwi, the headquarters of Chitrakoot district, housed in a yellowing, decrepit, striking colonial compound, the starch in Meera…
In this introductory piece to Khabar Lahariya’s all-new, subscription-only product, Sound, Fury and 4G, bringing you long-form, multimedia pieces on the lives of India’s rural youth, we look closely at…