Tag: West Bengal
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When Traditional Art Forms Become the Key to Poverty Eradication
Banglanatak is showing the world how folk art forms can revivify communities and sustain them.
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When Doctors Don’t Care About Consent
In a rural government hospital in West Bengal, women are not even informed that intrauterine contraceptive devices have been inserted into their bodies.
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Trafficked at 11, Pregnant Teen Comes Home to Police Inaction
For nine long years that Nagma was missing, the police took no action to trace her and is doing little now to punish her traffickers.
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Riverine Erosion Swallows Livelihoods in West Bengal
For the past 16 years, riverine erosion by the Ghargharia river has been eating away at the land in Coochbehar’s Uttar Kaljani village, while the authorities do nothing.
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Bauls in West Bengal Languish due to Government Apathy
Folk musicians whose rustic tunes and lyrics have inspired the likes of Tagore and Dylan suffer as state stops paying their monthly stipend.
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Usha: A New Beginning for Sex Workers
A co-operative bank run for and by sex workers is changing lives across West Bengal.
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No Water for Bengal Tea Garden Despite Repeated Petitions
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Some of the richest tea gardens in the country cannot even assure clean drinking water to their employees, the local government is doing nothing either.
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Women die in Childbirth as Hospital lies Vacant in West Bengal
Doctors refuse posting to a small village in a border district of West Bengal even as people suffer due to lack of medical services.