Community Correspondents
Anupama Sathy
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Families Evicted for Hockey World Cup Venue Beautification yet to be Rehabilitated
While the Hockey World Cup 2018 was kicked off with aplomb, 2000 people evicted for the expansion of its venue continue to live in deplorable conditions.
Atrocities Against Dalits Continue but Perpetrators Often Go Scot Free
Amidst debates on the dilution of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, a family in Odisha struggles to bring their ‘upper’ caste perpetrator to task.
“The Forest is our Mother”: Conservation and Sustainable Living in Odisha
Most indigenous communities traditionally depend on forests for their lives and livelihoods, forests that are steadily shrinking. When the forest resources in Nayagarh started to disappear, the community took to conservation and sustainable living, exercising their lawful forest rights.
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What’s in a Name? Only Patriarchal Control
Women in rural Odisha reflect on what the compulsion to change one’s surname after marriage means for their identity.
Untouchability Rife in Odisha Village
Devotees throng the temple on the auspicious night of Shivaratri, but untouchability bars Sarathi Das from entering.
Torture for Dalit for standing up against discrimination
Sanjukta Samal, whose husband works at a Dalit organisation in Jagatshinghpur District of Odisha, was beaten up by the upper caste people, because he was fighting back the discrimination in their village. Her son was robbed of his mobile and moped on his way to home one day. When Sanjukta’s...
Impact – Latrine crisis solved through proactive community solutions
80 families of Karatutha village in Odisha were suffering without toilets in their houses. That was until Community Correspondent, Anupama Sathy made a video about the same in 2015. Due to lack of toilets, these families had to defecate out in open. It was difficult for the women to go...
A disabled boy gets no promised pension
Tentulia village, Jagatsinghpur Dist. Odisha | Anupama Shaty Amarendra Kantha has been certified as 75% disabled by the government. Which means he has been entitled to a monthly ‘pension’ of Rs 300 since he was five years old. But Amarendra is now 13, in class VIII now and – yet...