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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 14 March 2018 English
A moving poem, along with a video, on the anguish of farmers who marched 180 kilometres from Nashik to Mumbai from March 6 to March 12, 2018, with the desperate …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 12 March 2018 English
Barsha Garai of Shyambati village in West Bengal’s Birbhum district is the only girl of her age training with veteran Baul musician Basudeb Das, and singing philosophical Baul songs since …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 6 February 2018 English
With falling farm returns, many of Marathwada’s farmers are now working as labourers in sugarcane fields – for long hours over five months, despite health risks, low wages, and the …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 2 February 2018 English
With the high cost of commuting to Aadhaar centres in hilly Uttarakhand, misspelt names and other glitches, many widows, the disabled and the elderly in Champawat district have not received …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 19 January 2018 English
When he was 10, Arjun Singh's father Rajeshwar died while cleaning a sewer in Delhi. At 14, the schoolboy sells snacks to support himself and his mother, and dreams of …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 12 January 2018 English
Recurring droughts in Marathwada have forced people in villages like Sawarkhed to drink fluoride-contaminated groundwater from borewells, which has inflicted debilitating fluorosis on many
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 12 December 2017 English
This 19-year-old from Chhattisgarh’s Durg district excels at restoration work on buildings, but earns just a labourer’s wage doing that skilled task in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 7 December 2017 English
Changes in technology, in audience tastes, shrinking performance spaces – have all impacted the tamasha. Troupe owners have mixed feelings – is the tamasha in danger or will Mangala Bansode's …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 13 November 2017 English
Students of the zilla parishad primary school in Nandgaon village in Pune district sing of equality and a freedom yet to be achieved in this country of 1.3 billion – …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 10 November 2017 English
Cotton farmers in Marathwada have seen a steady rise in input costs – seeds, fertilisers, electricity, water – but profits remain poor in the absence of state support, forcing many …