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VIDEO | Revolution on the horizon: Vivek Sultanvi performs ‘Zamaane ki haalat badal ke rahegi’

Ramesh Ranjak’s poem discusses the lasting impact of poverty and the difficult living conditions faced by millions.

Ashutosh Sharma

How underprivileged women in a Delhi slum are breaking the glass ceiling

Women at Tajpur Pahari discover the power of having information at their fingertips and find out how to use technology to empower themselves.

Goa Assembly unanimously backs Bill to protect widows

Opposition leader Yuri Alemao moves private member’s Bill against widow ill-treatment.

Vaikom Satyagraha, Periyar, and Tamil Nadu

As the Satyagraha turns 100 this year, a look at the Periyar factor that propelled it.

Siddarth Muralidharan

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In legal fight for love, petitioners look to SC for same-sex marriage sanction

A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court is set to hear the petitions on April 18, 2023.

Dalits, Muslims stage protests in Karnataka against reservation rejig plan

The BJP decided to meddle with the reservation policy to win over voters ahead of the May 10 Assembly election.

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

Coloured with hope

Milestone moments from the initiation ceremony of 13 young transwomen after gender affirmation surgery.

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Posing proudly in solidarity.

Coloured with hope

Moments from the initiation ceremony of young transwomen after gender affirmation surgery.

Police personnel cremating the body of the 19-year-old Dalit victim, in Hathras district on September 30, 2020.

Hathras rape-murder case: A doomed investigation to begin with

The victim’s family has decided to approach the Allahabad High Court for justice.

Those engaged in “India’s dirtiest job” are predominantly Dalits, who face social exclusion and violence across the country owing to their caste identity.

Watch | Manual scavenging: India’s continuing shame

As per official figures, there are at present 58,098 “eligible manual scavengers” across India.

Ashutosh Sharma,Frontline News Desk

A handloom weaver at Peruvemba in Palakkad, Kerala. According to experts, most of the economic investment goes to the organised sector, which constitutes only 6 per cent of the workforce.

Why women get fewer jobs and earn lower wages than men in India

Regressive social norms and inadequate investment keep them unemployed and underemployed.

Ashutosh Sharma

Police personnel push back the family of a person who was arrested for involvement in a child marriage during a massive crackdown across Assam; near Mayong Police Station, in Morigaon on February 4.

Assam government’s drive against child marriage a ham-handed attempt

Fear, threat, and intimidation have the least impact in changing socio-psychological behaviour.

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Phoolu (45), a full-time sanitation worker, cleans a manhole in Ghaziabad on May 1, 2020.

The continuing shame of manual scavenging

Budget 2023’s claim to end the practice might be just another in a long line of hollow promises.

Ashutosh Sharma

‘Ayali’ focusses on child marriage in Tamil Nadu

Discussing puberty, the original series examines the inter-generational trauma of women in India.

Siddarth Muralidharan

At the Satyashodhaka Bhavan, Sikindlapur

Satyashodhaka Yuvajana Sangham: Agent of change in Telangana

Inspired by the ideals of Jyotirao Phule, the collective furthers the fight for equality and rights.

People from Haldwani get emotional after the Supreme Court on January 5, 2023, stayed an Uttarakhand High Court order to evict them from 29 acres of land belonging to the Railways. (ANI Photo/Sanjay Sharma)

Supreme Court stay on Haldwani evictions draws attention to need to codify housing laws

With a rise in evictions across India, experts call for new laws that protect the right to shelter.

Ashutosh Sharma

Residents of Jamral village in Kathua district.

The Great Land Grab in Jammu and Kashmir

The UT administration attempts to provide land it claims to own to industrialists from other States.

Ashutosh Sharma

At a Gutti Koya hamlet in Yerrabodu in Bendalapadu gram panchayat of Bhadradri Kothagudem. Gutti Koyas live in makeshift wooden and mud huts, allocating large parcels of land to their cattle, cows, goats, hens, and ducks.

With no place to call home, the Gutti Koya tribe fights for survival

Displaced from Chhattisgarh and seeking refuge in Telangana’s forests, they face a grim future.

In this photograph from November 8, 2005, prisoners sit in a cell of Tihar Jail in New Delhi. On September 5, 2014, the Supreme Court ordered jails to free all inmates who have served half their maximum term without trial.

Long forgotten: India’s pretrial and undertrial prisoners

The country’s jails teem with poor and marginalised people detained without justification.

Ashutosh Sharma