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Khabar Lahariya, is a newspaper run by 40 rural women in the villages of UP and Bihar. Women who fight harassment and all odds to bring that one weekly newspaper.
There is news beyond the headlines that mainstream news channels keep hemming on our TV screens. India is much more than what we can perceive. Have you ever imagined what life could be or the problems that could be in a remote village in UP? Ofcourse news that do not give TRP. Here is a newspaper that reports what we do not see and it is run by women. Yes, you heard it right.
Khabar Lahariya, a weekly newspaper of 8 pages, which is sold is 600 villages in UP and Bihar. This paper with 40 local journalists sells 8000 copies, every week. A newspaper with a feminist lens. Khabar Lahariya began as the only Bundeli newspaper in India and now has editions in Bhojpuri, Awadhi, Hindustani and Bajjika.
In this video, meet Suneeta, married at the age of 12, left school at 9, who became a successful journalist. It’s not easy to be a Dalit or a tribal woman in the villages of UP or Bihar, where Patriarchy has completely taken over. These women face harassers almost every day. Yet, they make sure, that truth comes out through their pens. They are helped by journalists and activist in Delhi.
Watch the story of Suneeta here
And watch here the everyday struggle they go through.
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If her MIL had accepted her with some affection, wouldn't they have built a mutually happier relationship by now?
The incident took place ten years ago.
Smita could visit her mother only in summers when her daughter had school holidays. Her daughter also enjoyed meeting her Nani, and both of them had done their reservations for a week. A month before their visit, her husband told her, “My mom is coming for 4-5 months!”
Smita shuddered. She knew the repercussions. She would have to hear sarcastic comments from her mother-in-law for visiting her mother. She may make these comments directly only a bit, but her servants would be flooded with the words, “How horrible she is! She leaves me and goes!”
Maybe Animal is going to make Ranbir the superstar he yearns to be, but is this the kind of legacy his grandfather and granduncles would wish for?
I have no intention of watching Animal. I have heard it’s acting like a small baby screaming and yelling for attention. However, I read some interesting reviews which gave away the original, brilliant and awe-inspiring plot (was that sarcastic enough?), and I don’t really need to go watch it to have an informed opinion.
A little boy craves for his father’s love but doesn’t get it so uses it as an excuse to kill a whole bunch of people when he grows up. Poor paapa (baby) what else could he do?
I was wondering; if any woman director gets inspired by this movie and replicates this with a female protagonist, what would happen?. Oh wait, that’s the story of so many women in this world. Forget about not giving them love, you have fathers who try to kill their daughters or sell them off or do other equally despicable things.
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