March 2017
Home is Where We Must Start to Dismantle Patriarchy
This International Women’s Day, let’s radically transform our private spheres into equal spaces This women’s day are you feeling smothered by pink messages extolling your ‘feminine’ virtues? Are you besieged by offers to buy household and beauty products at great discounts? In the last hundred years, since the USSR, in...
Orphaned HIV+ Student Goes to School Again
Community Correspondent Rohini Pawar succeeds in her battle against prejudice and discrimination
A Toxic Harvest: Development gone wrong
How industrial development without environmental checks and balances destroyed a farming village in Chhattisgarh
Witch-Hunting: A Dark Spell on India
Think witch-hunting is a thing of the past? Think again.
50 million affected by Arsenic Poisoning in West Bengal
As rural West Bengal’s residents die of poisoning, the local administration claims they have no knowledge of the problem in the area Everyday Jahema Bewa has to trudge miles through muddy fields to get drinking water. While there are deep tubewells in her village, Jahema and others in her village...
61 families suffer due to lack of anaganwadi facilities
An Anganwadi center in a village is one of the essential most institutions in a rural setting to ensure a healthy, educated and aware child and mother. However, this village in Bisungarh district of Jharkhand, home to over at least 61 mothers worry that their children are denied the benefits of...
Goa Forest Warriors: A Community Guards its Forest
This World Forest Day, Goa shows India how communities can protect our precious forests
Studying in Fear
Agara Village, Bhatiagarh, Madhya Pradesh | Aartibai Valmiki The gaping cracks in buy oxymetholone this school building have filled the hearts of teachers, students and their parents. But in the absence of any other school in the vicinity, children continue coming here, putting their lives at risk to get an...