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A family of blacksmiths from Madhya Pradesh’s Neemuch district was sent careening into the depths of despair when its main bread earner died of electrocution. The son of the household was taking the small family business forward when he was…
The Covid-19 pandemic that erupted last year destroyed livelihoods, wiped out savings, snuffed out lives and broken families apart. The world stood a helpless witness to one of its biggest medical crises and the lockdown that was imposed as a…
Man proposes, God disposes. And sometimes, that twist of fate is so cruel that it leaves you high and dry and in utter despair. Nirmala Devi from Uttar Pradesh’s Balrampur has a similar story to tell. A story so poignant…
How harrowing life can be for a woman without family support can be gauged from the plight of Mamta Devi, a resident of Shahdol in Madhya Pradesh. She lost her husband 10 years ago. Since then, she has been living…
Srimannarayan Mishra never imagined the misfortune that would befall him, that too on Janmashtami, a day celebrated widely as marking the birth of Lord Krishna. According to Hindu legend, Lord Krishna’s birth had coincided with severe rain, but his…
Twenty-year-old Savita wandered the streets of Delhi in search of work, but work was not easy to come by. She had migrated to Delhi under considerable duress, with her family struggling under a mountain of debt. Savita’s father had borrowed…
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, goes an age-old saying. Indeed, there are hundreds of problems that life throws at us, and we always end up cursing our fate for it. Humans tend to cry for what they do…
Poornima had migrated all the way from Bihar to Delhi, lured like many others by the promise of a better life. She reached Delhi and took up work as domestic help. Her husband found gainful employment too. The family was…
Talks of communal unity and secularism sound all very well in the confines of air-conditioned rooms and over a cup of tea. Away from that sanitised environment, on the dusty lanes and bylanes of the country, however, the practicability of…
Humans can be terribly cruel beings. A trivial altercation led to a big fight, and Dinesh Kumar was left to die, beaten black and blue by a mob. Dinesh lives Kaduwar village, in Agra’s Fatehpur Sikri. Tensions apparently took shape…