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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 2 September 2022 English
This film traces the journey of the colourful katkyeti, a toy made by hand in a village in Murshidabad district and sold on city streets 2,000 kilometres away
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 22 August 2022 English
Meet the 27-year-old who is equally at ease running an eatery on the banks of the Brahmaputra and making people in his village look beautiful
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 15 August 2022 English
With slingshots and rifles, squads led by Mallu Swarajyam in Warangal struck dread in the Nizam's militia in the 1940s. Till her death in March 2022, this freedom fighter exhorted …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 4 July 2022 English
It’s been 23 years since mainly Sahariya Adivasi and Dalit families in forest villages of Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur district were displaced from their homes to make way for lions…that have …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 9 June 2022 English
On his birth anniversary, a tribute to Shahir Atmaram Salve, whose fiery poetry shaped the Namantar movement in Marathwada in the 1970s-80s. His songs stir the struggle for Dalit rights …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 27 May 2022 English
One of the last remaining artisans of bamboo cowbells in Shibaje village, in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka, explains the intricate nature of the craft in this video
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 9 May 2022 English
In a small town in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj district, Fatima Bibi and Ayesha Begum are shaping the revival of moonj craft, one blade at a time
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 25 April 2022 English
The Sahariya Adivasis of Bagcha village in Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur district will be displaced to make a home for the African cheetah – a move fraught with livelihood loss and …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 18 April 2022 English
Bhabani Mahato strongly disavows any role in the freedom struggle. But on learning her story at her home in West Bengal's Puruliya district, we conclude otherwise and marvel at her …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 14 April 2022 English
On Ambedkar Jayanti, Shahir Atmaram Salve’s poetry exhorts the listener to give up the old ways and follow the path shown by Babasaheb