Episode 20: The Dream of a Separate Bundelkhand

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 fresh in the memory of citizens of a newly Independent nation. But while  independence can feel like an abstract word, and freedom an elusive concept, the actual tactics of the freedom struggle live on in another political fight: for the statehood of Bundelkhand, the region where Khabar Lahariya is headquartered. With roots almost as long as our country is old, the fight for Bundelkhand’s statehood has been dormant for decades. But today, its leaders are calling on not only the familiar protest methods of the freedom struggle, but also social-media