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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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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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