Mariya Rajan 20/12/21 Mariya Rajan 20/12/21

WOMEN RISE UP | No Marriage Before 21

Women from rural India assemble in a village in the north Indian state of Haryana to take an oath, and declare, that they will not marry, or allow other women in their families to do so, before they are 21 years old. Could this be the beginning of a revolution among the country’s women?

Mariya Rajan 08/12/21 Mariya Rajan 08/12/21

LIVES ON FIRE | Jharkhand State’s Underground Fire

A seven-year-old girl witnesses her mother’s death after a portion of land caves in, burying her under debris in Jharia coalfields in India's Jharkhand state, where an underground fire has been raging for over 100 years due to unscientific mining. The girl's father, Dilip Bauri, recalls the incident …

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 01/12/21 Mariya Rajan 01/12/21

West Bengal’s Submerged Villages

Millions of people in India’s West Bengal state have been facing the brunt of meandering rivers for years. Over the last decade, entire villages living on ?Charlands? ? river islands that emerge as a result of a river changing its path’s have had to move to nearby patches of land for up to 16 times.

Mariya Rajan 24/11/21 Mariya Rajan 24/11/21

KASHMIRIYAT FRACTURED

Three decades after his brutal displacement, Rajinder Koul Premi, a Hindu from Kashmir, is still looking for answers, especially what led to the collapse of the region?s syncretic society? Will he get the answers? Will he be able to reconcile with the loss?

Mariya Rajan 09/11/21 Mariya Rajan 09/11/21

LONG WALK TO SCHOOL

Nikita Mehra treks for half an hour every day to reach the nearest road above her house in Almora district of the northern state of Uttarakhand, only to walk six more kilometres to attend school. Many other girls, however, have dropped out of school due to safety concerns.

Mariya Rajan 07/09/21 Mariya Rajan 07/09/21

WHERE’S MY LOO?

Kusum and Pinki are just two of the millions of women in rural India who do not have access to a toilet. The two live in a village in the northern state of Haryana, which according to the Indian government, is open-defecation free. Local activist Sameer Bakshi?s family raises the issue.

Vishal Arora 01/08/21 Vishal Arora 01/08/21

D FOR DOWRY

Awadh Kishore and Draupadi Kumari, a couple from northern India’s Bundelkhand agricultural region, are not only unable to sustain their family financially but also need to arrange large sums of money for the marriage of their four young daughters.

Mariya Rajan 01/06/21 Mariya Rajan 01/06/21

ON ELECTION DUTY

A tragedy strikes Mahima Gupta after her husband, Neeraj Gupta, a government employee, is sent on election duty amid a raging pandemic.

Vishal Arora 01/05/21 Vishal Arora 01/05/21

COVID - 19 | Help Never Arrived

A young journalist, Rahul Suryawanshi, shares about the efforts he made to save the life of his father, Toran Singh Suryawanshi, a government school teacher who gets infected with COVID-19 after going on a vaccine-awareness duty.