“There isn’t one particular case that I could pick out,” said Kavita Bundelkhandi, over the phone from Banda, Uttar Pradesh. Khabar Lahariya’s editor-in-chief has covered so many rape cases over…
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Blood Letters, Black Days and Red Gold: The Dream of a Separate Bundelkhand Seventy-three years ago, protest tactics like hunger strikes, rail roko (blockades) and jail bharo (filling jails), were…
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Episode 19: When YouTube Gets Your Goat- E-Commerce, Eid and the Bakrebaaz Life
द्वारा खबर लहरिया July 30, 2020India’s goat farmers aren’t kidding around when they say they’re having a bad year. The months leading up to Bakr-Eid are the most hectic season for the business, and the…
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Episode 18: To Educate or Operate- The Big Question of Rural Reproductive Rights
द्वारा खबर लहरिया July 11, 2020In December 2018, Khabar Lahariya reporter Suneeta Prajapati arrived at the Community Health Centre in Kabrai, Mahoba to cover a sterilization camp, a routine feature of rural healthcare in these…
June 18 was a typically busy day in India. In the morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his latest scheme, the Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan (loosely translated, Poor People’s Welfare…
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Ep. 16: A Family Affair- Women and Panchayat Politics
द्वारा खबर लहरिया June 14, 2020The dominant volume of patriotism these days is loud: nationalism at the chest-thumping, bullet-whizzing, thali-clanging frequency of films, like Uri: The Surgical Strike, that make the anthem cued up in…
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Episode 15: The story of us- 18 years of Khabar Lahariya
द्वारा खबर लहरिया May 31, 2020A few years ago, a daroga, or excise officer, was investigating a local leader in Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh for bootlegging liquor. The daroga, a Dalit, sanctioned a raid on…
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Episode 14: India’s Unbroken Chains- Labour Migration in the Time of COVID-19
द्वारा खबर लहरिया May 16, 2020Banda railway station on May 7 appeared to be a model of Covid-19 preparedness. Health workers wearing personal protective gear, some with face shields, roamed the platform. The policemen…
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Episode 13: Lockdown Life- Inside the Homes and Phones of a Covid-Shuttered Country
द्वारा खबर लहरिया April 25, 2020On Ram Navami, it rains flowers in Banda, in the hilly Bundelkhand region of southern Uttar Pradesh. A helicopter disburses showers of petals onto the town’s streets, which are…
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EPISODE 12: The Hunger Pandemic: Ash-filled Stoves and Empty Stomachs in Rural Uttar Pradesh
द्वारा खबर लहरिया April 11, 2020Around the world, social media feeds have become feasts for the eyes and spurs to the appetite, flooded with photos posted by people working from home and cooking for…