SEWA NYAYA UTTHAN FOUNDATION
Service. Justice. Inclusion
When you have passed through hell, you don’t want anybody else to face the same ordeal. When there is a means to do something, you tend to save lives. You use your bad experience as a buffer for fellow human…
Communal violence is one of the biggest scourges that India is faced with. The country has had a history of riots, and by the time the scars of one violence heals, another riot breaks out. Innocent people are attacked and…
The riots of 2020 were perhaps the worst that Delhi had seen since 1984. It destroyed lives and livelihoods and created an all-pervading atmosphere of fear and mistrust. Humaneness and compassion seemed to have become forgotten traits of the human…
Bala Devi lives in a village in Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh. She works as a househelp. Every day, she takes an autorickshaw and reaches the city to work in residential housing societies. Bala Devi lost her husband seven years…
Delhi last year was torn apart by some of the worst riots in its history; surely the biggest since the anti-Sikh pogrom of 1984. Families lost their breadwinners. Many turned homeless overnight. Others lost their livelihoods. Shyam Sahni lives…
Imagine having a single source of income that is reaping rich dividends. You would want to protect it with all that you have. And then imagine that source of income falling apart. It can well cause your entire life to…
For many, the strict nationwide lockdown imposed last year to break the chain of coronavirus infections provided a rare and welcome break from maddening work schedules and pressing deadlines. For those working from the comforts of their homes, it gave…
The year 2020 would be remembered as one of the darkest in human history when a pandemic brought the world to its knees. The economy screeched to a grinding halt as people spooked by the deadly coronavirus ran into the…
Arun Kashyap, a resident of Shiv Vihar, which was one of the focal points of last year’s riots in Delhi, was disconsolate sitting in an empty room. Goons had carried nearly everything away, stealing, looting, vandalising and filling up their…
Rahul and his family members are among many of those who have seen their lives being thrown asunder by the incidents of early 2020. The riots in Delhi coupled with the pandemic-induced lockdown had snuffed out many lives and left…