Governance ‘Watching Our Mother, an ASHA Worker, Has Taught Us to Be Good Humans’ Uma Devi is a frontline healthcare worker in rural Uttar Pradesh who has marched on despite strife in her personal...
OUR LIFE Building fences: Women in Bareilly make wire and metal netting to protect farmlands from stray cattle, and earn a living In Uttar Pradesh, 560,408 women self-help groups across the state’s 75 districts have helped rural women into self employment and...
NEWS ETC ‘Prerak’ teachers fume over pending dues in election-bound Uttar Pradesh Originally hired as part of a literacy program for adults, ‘prerak’ teachers in Uttar Pradesh have been asked to perform...
What We Grow Sweet tidings for farmers as scientists in Shahjahanpur develop a variety of sugarcane that is pest-resistant Uttar Pradesh Council of Sugarcane Research, Shahjahanpur, has developed a variety of sugarcane that is pest resistant and may be...
NEWS ETC Heavy rains leave urad dal farmers from Rampur, Uttar Pradesh in deep waters Urad dal farmers in Rampur district, Uttar Pradesh in a welter of woes as unexpected rains and flooding of rivers...
NEWS ETC Ishrat Jahan epitomises the pain of farmers repeatedly hit by extreme weather events Their paddy was ripe and the farmers, after harvesting it, had placed it in neatly arranged bundles in their fields....
NEWS ETC Infused with pride and grief, a UP village bids farewell to its son Lance Naik Satyam Pathak A resident of Behti Khurd village in Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi district, Lance Naik Satyam Kumar Pathak died of a heart...
Changemakers Rural women in Shahjahanpur are turning their lives around, one straw at a time Working from within their homes, 20 women of an SHG in a small village of Uttar Pradesh, are making products...
Reportage Poonch attack: Sepoy Saraj Singh’s mother spoke to him three days ago, now she awaits his mortal remains Yesterday, October 11, five Indian soldiers were killed in a terrorist attack in Poonch, Jammu & Kashmir. Twenty-six-year-old Sepoy Saraj...
Reportage Some media people are putting words in our mouth: journalist Raman Kashyap’s brother On October 3, eight people were killed in violent clashes in Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh. A journalist, Raman...
