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Despite the insufferable April heat of Kerala, little groups of women stand outside the Communist Party of India office in Wayanad’s Kalpetta, gathering from as far as Manipur and as remote as the Sathyamangalam forests of Tamil Nadu. Emerging from the CPI office, Annie Raja chats and jokes with each…

भारत में टेलीविज़न पत्रकारिता का जनाजा निकल चुका है. अर्थी श्मशान के रास्ते में है. एक वो दौर था जब हाथ में माइक लिए पत्रकार किसी गांव-चौपाल में पहुंचता था तब लोग स्वागत में बिछ जाते थे. आज टेलीविज़न पत्रकारिता उस गर्त में पड़ी है जहां स्वागत में मुर्दाबाद, गोबैक…

One of the largest votebases in the Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha constituency is the fisher community, second only to the dominant Nadar caste. Nearly 20 percent of all of Tamil Nadu’s fisherfolk reside in the region, a vast majority of whom are Catholic Christians from the Mukkuvar and Paravar castes.

As we stroll through the Vavathurai and Kovalam coasts of Kanniyakumari, speaking to the fisherfolk as they prepare to set out to the sea, an anti-BJP sentiment seems palpable. “The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shouldn’t come to power again,” an elderly fisherman named Mariasusai tells us. “Many of us in…

गौतम बुद्ध नगर जिले के दादरी ब्लॉक के खुरशैदपुरा गांव के रहने वाले 18 साल के हिमांशु को जब हमने बताया कि उनके पास पांच एकड़ जमीन है. जिसमें खेती करके वह सालाना पांच लाख रुपये की कमाई करते हैं. वो हैरान हो गए. पास में खड़ी उनकी मां हंसते…

Himanshu, an 18-year-old resident of Khurshidpura village of Gautam Buddha Nagar’s Dadri, was surprised when told that his income had doubled, that he owned five acres of land, and earned Rs 5 lakh each year.

Many villages in Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh are home to several tribal communities, including the Gonds and Baigas. While the government claims that India has entered its Amrit Kaal, these are areas which lack potable water and basic medical facilities even 75 years after independence.

The Lok Sabha elections are just days away in Rajasthan, but unlike previous polls, the streets in the capital Jaipur are denuded of campaign material. Except Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s face on hoardings at crucial junctions.

India is days away from deciding its votes. As the poll campaign intensifies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invoked religion to hit out at the Opposition.