In our continued exploration of Dalit bastis and their histories, we spent time in Harijanpur and Chamrauha in Uttar Pradesh this week. In the dense forests near Manikpur district, a…
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Who Names, Who Belongs: Caste, Memory, and the Making of Fokatpura
द्वारा KL Hatke April 29, 2025Why does living off scraps become a necessity? Who decides whose labour is worth discarding, whose hunger is an afterthought? And more crucially—why do these so-called ‘Fokatpuras’ always end up…
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Bundelkhand’s Folk Power: Alha-Ballads of Bravery
द्वारा खबर लहरिया April 11, 2025Ballads and bardic chronicles have long been a defining feature of storytelling traditions across the Indian subcontinent. While love stories like Heer-Ranjha have captured hearts in Punjab, Rajputana and Bundelkhand…
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From Grandma’s Secrets to Viral Videos: The World of Home Remedies
द्वारा KL Hatke May 24, 2023Picture this: You’re on a bustling public transport or off on a fun-filled adventure, when suddenly, you feel that familiar bloating sensation in your stomach. Your instincts kick in, and…
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Voice, Agency & Empowerment: Stories from the margins
द्वारा KL Hatke November 2, 2022KL Hatke’s new series is an attempt to hold space for stories of women from Bundelkhand and beyond; women who don’t come from privilege but are pushing boundaries in their…
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Part 02- Independence, Political Empowerment, and Community Building : Panchayati Raj in India
द्वारा KL Hatke August 29, 2022How have Panchayati Raj elections evolved post-independence? And how can they make or break a political party’s future in the state? Over the years Panchayat elections have become crucial for…
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Part 01- Independence, Political Empowerment, and Community Building : Panchayati Raj in India
द्वारा KL Hatke August 23, 2022Despite its undeniable impact in relation to the very ethos of independence, urban India remains largely oblivious to the functioning of a panchayat; Social Science textbooks mostly offer a reductive…
This year, on 31st May, Khabar Lahariya turned 20, completing two decades of groundbreaking rural journalism, enabling feminist reporting by questioning structures of power and inequity, and training rural women…
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Women Empowerment in Rural India: Just a Catchphrase or Reality?
द्वारा खबर लहरिया March 22, 2022If you are based out of a city, chances are you may feel like Women’s Day celebrations are overdone – they start much before 8th March and can extend up…
The world was eager to embrace 2022 with a renewed sense of hope, but on the very first day of the year, over a hundred Indian Muslim women woke up…