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.

Ashish Vijay 25/01/22 Ashish Vijay 25/01/22

PAHADIN | How Women keep The Mountain Inhabited

Lakshmi Gauniyal's day starts at dawn and she rests only after dusk. She does all the work, from preparing meals to cutting wood from trees to sowing seeds in their agricultural field and earning money from labour under the government's social security measure MNREGA. Had it not been for women like Lakshmi, families would have been compelled to migrate away from their villages in Uttarakhand state's mountainous Pauri Garhwal district.

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 10/01/22 Mariya Rajan 10/01/22

DINNER WITH JATAVS

Jawahar Singh Jatav, one of the more than 160 million Dalit people in India, is still recovering from his injuries after he and his family were attacked for drinking water from a tap inside a temple in Rajasthan state?s Bharatpur area. Host Harshita Rathore visits the Jatavs…

Mariya Rajan 07/01/22 Mariya Rajan 07/01/22

SILIGURI

Host Mariya Rajan's quick visit to three hamlets near lush green tea gardens in Siliguri city and surrounding areas reveal that at least one child has gone "missing" in each of them. Was it just a coincidence, or is something changing in that region - which, being a gateway to the northeast India as well as the neighbouring countries …

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

SEX TRAFFICKING IN MUMBAI

Shama (name changed) and her underage daughter are brought from West Bengal state to Mumbai city by human traffickers with the promise of a job. Soon they find themselves in separate brothels. Their stories reflect what many of the more than 1,600 girls and women in Mumbai …

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

DINNER WITH KAWS | Conversation with a Kashmiri Pandit Family

Fleeing Kashmir in 1990, as over 70,000 other families did under threat from violence by Islamist militants, the Kaw family resettled in the northern India but they still miss their home. Host Harshita Rathore explores what identity-based discrimination and violence do to the minds and hearts of members of a community.

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 07/12/21 Mariya Rajan 07/12/21

LONG WALK TO WATER

Series host Mariya Rajan goes for an arduous walk on the mountains of Almora district of Uttarakhand state with a local resident, Janaki Devi, who fetches water three times a day from the nearest stream that is kilometres away.

Mariya Rajan 07/12/21 Mariya Rajan 07/12/21

IN THE GUISE OF LOVE

Shaheen (not her real name) is one of many women in West Bengal state?s Murshidabad district who believe that when men propose for marriage, they do so out of true love, not knowing that it could be mere pretence of love being used by human traffickers to sell them for labour or sex, or both.

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 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.

Mariya Rajan 06/10/21 Mariya Rajan 06/10/21

TRAPPED AWAY FROM HOME

Two underage girls from India’s eastern state of Jharkhand narrate how they were trafficked from the tribal-majority district of Gumla to the country’s city of Delhi for domestic work.

Mariya Rajan 01/10/21 Mariya Rajan 01/10/21

THE UNEQUAL HALF | Gender Discrimination in Rajasthan

A young woman, Barkha (not her real name), goes through discrimination and sexual abuse at home, which, an activist says, may serve as anecdotes about what many girls and women in the north Indian state of Rajasthan experience due to a high level of gender inequality.