Mariya Rajan 15/04/22 Mariya Rajan 15/04/22

PORTER | Life of A Daily- Wage Worker

As railway stations now have fairly modern infrastructure and travellers use wheel trollies, the demand for porters has gone down in recent years. COVID-19 restrictions have further brought their earnings down. This first episode of a series of short films, with no dialogues …

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 19/01/22 Mariya Rajan 19/01/22

LEOPARD IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

Sarveshwar Prasad?s family is among the very few people in his village in northern India?s Uttarakhand state who have not migrated away out of fear of leopards. These wild cats are often seen wandering in residential areas in the state?s Pauri Garhwal district and sometimes mauling humans, even to death.

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

WHY ARE MINORITIES ATTACKED IN INDIA

About 200 people barged into a church in Roorkee city’s Solanipuram area in Uttarakhand state on Oct. 3, vandalised its property and beat up Christians, including women. When the Christians filed a police plaint, three people lodged a counter complaint alleging that workers of the church …

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.