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Chorbagan stampede: 19 dead at a Puja pandal, and who answers
A father pulled 7–8 children out of the Chorbagan crush but lost his own son. 19 died at the Kolkata pandal. What…
Author: India People Blog
Podcast
Voice of Youth S2 E23: Ashwin Kumar on Farmland and Villa Estates
Ashwin Kumar of Vibez Estates tells Voice of Youth how buying land in India is turning from a one-time purchase into managed…
Candlelight
Kiran Baiga, the mother who chased a leopard to save her son
When a leopard seized her young son near Sanjay Tiger Reserve, Kiran Baiga ran after it into the forest with a stick,…
Candlelight
Bunty Mukherjee, the Childline worker racing to stop child marriages
In June 2020, as cyclone and lockdown hit the Sundarbans, Childline worker Bunty Mukherjee went from one child marriage to the next…
Third Eye
Delhi air pollution and children: the lungs that pay the price
Eleven Delhi schoolchildren took the smog to court and got their games moved. What Delhi air pollution does to children, and what…
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Oting killings: AFSPA renewed again, and still no trial
Soldiers killed 13 civilians in Oting, Nagaland, in 2021. AFSPA halted the case against 30 accused. As the law is renewed, families…
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India’s missing women: what the 1,020 sex ratio headline hid
NFHS-5 found 1,020 women per 1,000 men, but the survey overcounts women and 9 million girls were lost to sex selection. The…
Third Eye
Child marriage in the Sundarbans: what every cyclone costs girls
About 42% of young women in West Bengal married before 18. In the Sundarbans, every cyclone pushes more girls into it. The…
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JEEViKA at 20: What Bihar’s Women’s Self-Help Groups Changed
JEEViKA, Bihar's women's self-help movement, turns 20 with 1.81 crore households. What the money, data and its own workers say about what…
Third Eye
Alive, but off the roll: the voters SIR left behind in Bhopal
Madhya Pradesh's SIR cut 34.25 lakh names. In Bhopal, families who never moved found themselves off the roll. IPB traces how it…
Podcast
Voice of Youth S2 E22: Dhruv Arora of Jasper Group on Food Retail
Dhruv Arora, Managing Director of Jasper Group, talks about frozen food, health-focused convenience and the supply chains behind how India eats.
Podcast
Voice of Youth S2 E21: Dr Saarthak Bakshi, CEO of RISAA IVF
Dr Saarthak Bakshi, CEO of the fertility chain RISAA IVF, talks about moving from engineering into healthcare and backing startups.