Tag: Discrimination
Identifying The Real Identity: Exercise To Help Community Correspondents Identify Their Core Issues
During the IndiaUnheard training, director Stalin K held a special session on identity. The session saw community correspondents speaking aloud about issues that are dear to their hearts such as gender discrimination, caste-based violence, economic deprivation, terrorism and destruction of forest land. Each of the CCs has deep personal connection...
Cycle of Monthly Discrimination
Menstruating women in Rajasthan are imposed with certain restrictions pertaining to food and mobility.
Tamil’s Transgender Community
Indian society has a 4000-year history of pushing its male to female transgender community into becoming Hijra.
India’s Untouched Temple!
Ramayana characters are worshipped in India while temples dedicated to the author of the epic is treated ‘untouchable’.
Indian Transgenders Seek Job, Dignity
Members of the Transgender community in India’s Tamil Nadu request the state to give them jobs and the right to a life of dignity.
Gender Bias In Wages
Women farm workers in rural India labour hard, but are paid only half of what men are. This video captures the bias in Maharashtra state
A Mirror To Valmiki Community
In this video the correspondent profiles his own community – the Valmikis, perhaps the most oppressed community in India.
Hijra LeaderTakes A Stand
Transgender rickshaw driver fights for his community, leads protests against corrupt police, municipal employees in India’s Allahabad.