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#BattiGul: 71 Years and No Freedom from Darkness
Seven decades after independence, thousands are yet to see what electricity looks like, while others are waiting for their defunct poles and wires to be more than ornamental.
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Adarsh Gram Yojana: Inside PM Modi’s Ideal Village
The residents of Nagepur were jubilant when their village was adopted by the PM under the Adarsh Gram Yojana. Two years on, little progress has been made.
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Are Awareness Programmes Enough to Declare a Village Cashless?
Lanura and Manzigam were the first villages in Kashmir to go ‘cashless’, but they don’t even have efficient roads, electricity and water supply, nevermind internet connection.
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Clean Up Your Act, and Clean Up the Environment
When it comes to the environment, there is a definite truth to the cliché, ‘change begins with us’.
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Locked and Defunct: How Panchayats Work in Pulwama
Ever since the Panchayati Raj Act was adopted, the panchayat buildings in this Pulwama village are regularly painted and maintained; only to open for elections.
World Press Freedom Day: People’s Media Keeps Power in Check
Critiquing the media, Mark Twain said, “There are laws to protect the freedom of the press’ speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.”
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Ambedkar Jayanti: Keeping Ambedkar’s dream relevant
As statues of B.R. Ambedkar get vandalised across the country, Video Volunteers asks people across India if the architect of the Indian constitution is still relevant.
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Dalits and Adivasis Struggle to Pierce Through Crass Atrocities Even Today
A survey conducted by Video Volunteers with the SC/ST community in India reaffirms a fact everyone knows, but few talk about - discrimination exists and more than 50% of the respondents have experienced it in its most crass form - untouchability.