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.
Jigyasa Mishra
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.
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.
6 June 2020
Farmers in Banda, Uttar Pradesh fight damage to their lands and the Ken river by a sand mining mafia.
12 May 2020
With schools shut, girls from poor families in Uttar Pradesh lost access to free sanitary napkins and turned to risky options.
10 May 2021
Schoolteachers working as polling officials in the Uttar Pradesh panchayat elections died of Covid-19 as cases surged around the polls.
17 November 2022
Pregnant women in Bandipore struggle with erratic power supply and poor public healthcare facilities.
7 July 2022
A report on how gaps in India’s rape laws leave transwomen vulnerable to sexual violence and poor access to justice.
16 February 2022
A story on Dalit Sikh women in Punjab working in punishing conditions and trapped in cycles of caste, labour, and debt.
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.