NEWS BY THOSE WHO LIVE IT
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Sarpanch Pati: The Roadblock to Women’s Political Participation
Twenty-five years after women were given 33% reservation in local self-governance bodies, many women sarpanchs remain faceless wives and daughters-in-law.
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“To live fearless and free”: Kashmiri Girl Defiantly Pursues Cricketing Dreams
Insha Mir has struggled against patriarchal diktats for over a decade and today captains her college cricket team.
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Public Health in Jharkhand: One Crumbling Health Centre for 8000 People
Reports on maternal and child deaths come in from different parts of the country everyday: no surprise given that the public health infrastructure is in shambles.
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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.
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Susegad about the State of a School in Shambles
While the CM boasts that Goa is the richest state in India, the students in a high school in rural Cancona fear that the roof might collapse on their heads.
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Malnourished Democracy
The death of an eleven-year-old in Jharkhand has once again focused attention on the abysmal performance of the world's largest democracy in fighting hunger and malnourishment. But what happens once the media's glare shifts?
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“Because I am a boy”: How Masculinity is Learned
Ravind was just another kid playing around with the other kids of his age in his village until the day he wore girls’ footwear and his friends teased him about it.
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The Lost Boys of Arwal
Four families have been waiting for two years for their children to return as the police twiddles its thumbs.