Mariya Rajan 27/01/22 Mariya Rajan 27/01/22

UNHEARD ECHOES

Duka Devi is nearly 100 years old but her activist spirit appears to be as youthful as it must have been during the ?Chipko? movement she was part of decades ago. In that agitation in Raini village in Uttarakhand state?s Chamoli district in the 1970s, women from the Bhotia indigenous community hugged trees and offered to be shot by loggers, successfully preventing fell of trees.

Mariya Rajan 31/12/21 Mariya Rajan 31/12/21

A CRY FOR DIGNITY | Punjab’s Dalit Christians Speak Out

Kamal Masih, a lawyer practising in a region near India’s border with Pakistan, has represented many victims of discrimination and violence against Dalit Christians in Punjab state. However, Hindu nationalists claim that Christians seek to convert Dalits by offering monetary benefits.

Mariya Rajan 04/12/21 Mariya Rajan 04/12/21

ASHIYANA

Mohammed Arif, a resident of Khori Gaon village in the northern state of Haryana, awaits the demolition of his house, just as more than 100,000 other area residents do after the Supreme Court of India?s ruling that the village sits 'illegally' on a forest land.

Mariya Rajan 14/10/21 Mariya Rajan 14/10/21

WHY ARE UNIVERSITIES UNDER ATTACK

Prof. Apoorvanand from Delhi University speaks to Newsreel Asia’s Asad Ashraf on the idea of university and why and how universities are under attack in India.

Vishal Arora 01/07/21 Vishal Arora 01/07/21

LIVES AT RISK

Kaazim Ahmad, a 62-year-old man, was stripped and beaten with a blunt object due to his Muslim identity in Noida city in the National Capital Region on July 4. He narrated the incident to Asad Ashraf and Surabhi Singh.