A village in Bihar refuses to let one of India’s oldest art forms die

21 February 2026

With many youngsters having migrated for work, it has fallen to the middle-aged and elderly to keep Jitwarpur and its Madhubani heritage going.

In Khurja, an age-old ceramic craft adapts for the modern table

28 March 2026

As India’s top hotels and restaurants source pottery and serveware from Khurja, the legacy craft is keeping up with the times.

Footprints of protest in the sands of a mine

6 June 2020

Farmers in Banda, Uttar Pradesh fight damage to their lands and the Ken river by a sand mining mafia.

Locked-down schoolgirls: no basic needs, period

12 May 2020

With schools shut, girls from poor families in Uttar Pradesh lost access to free sanitary napkins and turned to risky options.

UP panchayats: for whom the polls toll

10 May 2021

Schoolteachers working as polling officials in the Uttar Pradesh panchayat elections died of Covid-19 as cases surged around the polls.

In the dark: health care in Wazirithal

17 November 2022

Pregnant women in Bandipore struggle with erratic power supply and poor public healthcare facilities.

Raped, mocked by police for seeking justice: India’s rape laws do not cover transwomen

7 July 2022

A report on how gaps in India’s rape laws leave transwomen vulnerable to sexual violence and poor access to justice.

‘We live, work in filth and are treated like filth:’ Punjab’s Dalit women caught in cycle of bonded work

16 February 2022

A story on Dalit Sikh women in Punjab working in punishing conditions and trapped in cycles of caste, labour, and debt.

Women’s lives get harder in Bundelkhand as water scarcity grows

8 July 2022

Up to 70% of women in parts of drought-prone Bundelkhand are affected by acute water shortages, according to one NGO estimate.