NEWS BY THOSE WHO LIVE IT
Meet the RTI Activist from Odisha who Pledges to End Corruption
Threatened and attacked for filing 200 RTI applications in 10 years, activist Nilamani Joshi continues undaunted.
Adivasi Community Denied Forest Rights in the Name of Tiger Conservation
As the government works to keep tiger reserves free from all human activity, Adivasi communities living in reserve precincts struggle to survive.
Inside the Staff Quarters of a Nagpur District Hospital: Defunct Toilets, Filth and Stench
The sanitation workers of the TB centre at the Government Medical College and Hospital in Nagpur have no option but to live in unsanitary conditions.
A Community’s Decade Long Struggle for Water in West Bengal
North Bengal suffers from an acute water shortage and from water contamination but both the government and the tea industry have been slow to act.
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.
Five Months On, Minor Trafficked from Malda Yet to be Traced
West Bengal accounts for the highest number of reported trafficking cases in the country, yet victims often suffer further due to police inaction.
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Gaya’s Village of Migrant Workers
Out of the 132 families in this Bihar village, at least hundred have seen their younger members migrate in search of work, but not necessarily a better life.
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Health Workers Asserting their Rights Intimidated, Threatened by the Police
Police cracks down on demonstrating health workers in Bhopal, illegally detaining them; the workers are fighting for better pay and working conditions.