Covid woes of MP and UP’s bamboo basket making community
The Basor community of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh are still reeling with the losses of the pandemic as it brought their business - making household items of bamboo -…
Shuchita Jha
Sundari players struggle as Covid takes the music out of Indian weddings
Bhopal: Sundari, a wind-instrument is held in high regard among musicians of Maharashtra, as the younger sister of the better-known Shehnai. But sadly, the Sundari-organists in Solapur, are still reeling…
Trump’s Taj Mahal tour guide and others out of work since COVID lockdown
In late February last year Nitin Singh, a tourist guide at the famous Taj Mahal in Agra was on top of the world. He had been entrusted with the prestigious…
Fears, stigma, lack of representation deter transgenders from getting vaccines
Bhopal: While much of India is rushing to get vaccinated for Covid-19, there are still many people from the transgender and kinnar or hijra communities in the country who are…
Vaccination among women 11% lower than in men in Madhya Pradesh
Bhopal: “I don’t want to take the vaccine as I have read on social media that I will not be able to bear a child,” said Rekha (name changed on…
Tribal artists forced to sell vegetables, and paintings on the street during pandemic
Bhopal: Selling vegetables on Bhopal’s Depot Chouraha with his wife, Gond artist Ram Narayan Singh Maravi always carries a tote bag full of paintings with his brushes and colours, at…
After Covid, a pandemic of hunger looms large in MP
The lockdown-induced loss of livelihoods has left many vulnerable villagers in Madhya Pradesh unable to feed their families even two square meals a day. Bhopal: Four-year-old Gudiya* (name changed)…
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