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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 13 August 2019 English
At least 40 people have been killed across Kolhapur and Sangli districts of Maharashtra, over 400,000 evacuated to transit camps, and livestock and crop losses are huge but yet to …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 12 August 2019 English
Kadal Osai, a community radio of and for fisherfolk on Pamban island of Tamil Nadu’s Ramanathapuram district, turns three this week. And it's making waves – with climate change as …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 5 August 2019 English
Coffee and pepper farmers in Wayanad, Kerala, are reeling under losses caused by a rise in temperatures and erratic rainfall in a district whose residents once boasted of its ‘air-conditioned …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 25 July 2019 English
Debahala Chakma of Rajivnagar in Mizoram, a visually impaired craftsman, has made intricate baskets for a living for 50 years using touch and memory, and says he can still make …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 July 2019 English
'Mandi' is an award-winning short film that draws on PARI's coverage of the agrarian crisis
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 24 June 2019 English
Ajit Shelke or ‘Rapboss’ sings powerfully in this Marathi rap song about the acute distress of farmers in Maharashtra: ‘I see there is now only one option to choose, Around …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 26 April 2019 English
What determines rural India’s votes? The issues that matter most to voters in the country’s villages include farm distress, loan waivers, healthcare, roads, schools, jobs, better wages and dignified lives. …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 5 April 2019 English
Vaishali Yede, a farm labourer and anganwadi worker, whose husband committed suicide in 2011, is contesting the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from eastern Maharashtra against political heavyweights
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 April 2019 English
After a coal mine decimated land and livelihoods in Baranj Mokasa and other villages in eastern Maharashtra, the BJP MP, people say, did not ensure fair compensation, so they will …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 27 March 2019 English
Four Katkari Adivasi families living for decades just outside Chiradpada village in Thane district could soon lose their huts and livelihoods to a viaduct of the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi Highway