Mariya Rajan 16/08/22 Mariya Rajan 16/08/22

SHOW ME THE WAY HOME

A young Rohingya man, Ali Johar, fled persecution in Myanmar?s Rakhine state and later made his way to India, as he had heard that Indian people and their government were kind-hearted. Did he, and his fellow refugees, experience that kindness?

Mariya Rajan 11/08/22 Mariya Rajan 11/08/22

SUBMERGED | A Result of Uttarakhand’s Development Projects

Sucheta Tomar, a farmer and housewife in Uttarakhand state's Lohari village, is one of the many residents who lost their ancestral homes due to a hydropower project by the state government. Their home submerged in flood water, Sucheta and her husband now live in a classroom of an abandoned school.

Mariya Rajan 22/05/22 Mariya Rajan 22/05/22

LIFE IN CUSTODY | Judicial Killings in Uttar Pradesh

Police in Uttar Pradesh state arrest, on average, more than 300,000 residents each year, out of which tens of thousands end up in judicial #custody as accused. On paper, the State assumes responsibility for a person that it takes into custody, but, in reality, police and jail authorities blatantly rob detainees…

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.