A pandemic of human rights violations in Madhya Pradesh
In early April this year there was outrage across the country when photographs emerged of eight journalists and theatre artists stripped to their underwear in a police station in Madhya…
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Mahua bumper harvest brings cheer to Adivasis hit by Covid economic woes
The happiness of 65-year-old Santo Bai, an Adivasi in Madhya Pradesh, knows no bounds. After suffering during the Covid pandemic she is now bursting with happiness because the Mahua flower,…
Debt and bureaucracy deal death blow to MP farmers reeling from Covid impact
“The farmer also wants to live, sir! But he is forced to take a loan. This is done not once, but over and over again. First, to sow the crop,…
Incompetence turns to indifference in MP during third Covid wave
The first wave of Covid in India revealed that those running the government were clueless. The second was exposed their sheer incompetence. And now, during the ongoing third wave of…
Covid hits survivors of the Bhopal Gas Disaster hardest
It has been 37 years since the deadly killer gas, methyl isocyanate, spread from the Union Carbide factory like a suffocating blanket of death across the old city of Bhopal,…
Covid becomes excuse to deny dues to MP state government employees
“In the first and second wave of the Covid pandemic, ministers and MLAs were sitting in their homes. They avoided common people and crowds. Had virtual meetings. Continued their rhetoric…
Medical interns at AIIIMS, Bhopal strike over dues from Covid duty
On 28 October, over a 100 interns at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal went on a day and night hunger strike. They were demanding that the hospital…
MP farmers in distress due to low cotton prices
After making losses on their vegetable crops throughout the Covid period farmers in Madhya Pradesh are making big losses due to falling prices of cotton. Vegetable crops have been destroyed…
Rail passengers in MP demand restoration of pre-Covid train services
With 22 million passengers every day the Indian railways is second only to China globally in terms of the number of people transported. Since the onset of the Covid pandemic…
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…
Suicides, drug addiction on rise in MP due to Covid induced job losses
“I am unable to face hunger, future, illness, fee debt, house rent and unemployment” said the four page suicide note. On the night of 27 August 2021 Ravi Thackeray*, an…
Right to protest curbed in MP under guise of Covid
On August 18 as members of the Movement against Unemployment hit the streets of the Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal they were brutally caned by the police as they tried to…
‘No investigation, no vaccination!’ MP villagers leverage Covid to fight corruption
In the midst of the gloom caused by the Covid pandemic there is a uniquely inspiring story from Madhya Pradesh. It is about how a group of villagers smartly leveraged…
Covid pushes families in MP into debt as economic crisis deepens
Bhopal: The second wave of Covid-19 has hit the people of Madhya Pradesh hard, with thousands losing their lives. The misery has not stopped though for millions of citizens in…
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…
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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