JAGATSINGHPUR, ODISHA: At 4AM on 3rd February 2013, twelve platoons of police forcefully entered villages, Dhinkia and Govindpur to take over forest land. These villages have been at the centre of a seven year long resistance movement against the Korean steel company POSCO which seeks to build a port and...
On Saturday 25th August 2012, Video Volunteers began recruitment of new Community Correspondents for the IndiaUnheard program in Chhattisgarh. The program is currently targeting sensitive states where the need for community media as an alternative to the mainstream is matter of urgency. In February 2012, 18 new correspondents joined IndiaUnheard...
Dear Friends, My name in Ranjit Dehury. I am 25 years old. I have only recently joined Video Volunteers’ as a Community Corespondent from my district of Dhenkanal district, Odisha. There are many injustices that my community has to face on a daily basis but you may never head of...
Dear Friends, My name is Jairam Hansda. I am the IndiaUnheard Community Correspondent from the East Singhbum District in the state of Jharkhand. Before you start with my story, I request you to keep this question in mind while you are reading. Is following the law, a way of breaking...
These days, it seems that you can find practically everything and everyone on the Internet, right? Thanks to social media, you may have reconnected with the kid who sat behind you in primary school or you might routinely find the most obscure information online. So naturally, you think the Internet...
Mohan is a Video Volunteers Community Correspondent from District Ramgarh, Jharkhand. He belongs to a community that lives dangerously perched between the open coal mines of Tata, on one side and the Central Coalfields, on the other. He has made many powerful videos which chronicle the havoc wrecked by mining on nature and life. Mohan...
Read about Human Rights activist and Video Volunteers’ Community Correspondent Aparna Marandi and her 4 year old son Alok’s unconstitutional arrest by the Jharkhand police here- Day 1, Day 2, Day 3. This happened today. 12th December, 2012. At 10.06am, Video Volunteers called Shri. G.S.Rath and asked him the whereabouts...
URGENT APPEAL Aparna Marandi, her four year old son Alok Chandra, Satish (16 years old) her distant relative and her two friends Baby Turi and Susheela Ekka were picked up the police on 8th December. The manner in which they were picked up, interrogated and detained, are in clear violation of...
