As a news verification trainer, spreading awareness among journalists and journalism students, I have realised that spreading misinformation and disinformation has become an industry in itself. Though Google News Initiative (GNI) against fake news, in partnership with Internews and DataLeads, has trained 15,000 journalists and journalism students in the pastContinue Reading
Richa Singh, a social activist, who is also a member of Sangtin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, Sitapur, U.P. spoke about ‘State-sponsored Terrorism’ on Thursday at St. Peter’s Church Hall, Bandra. Richa Singh and the other activists from U.P narrated the eyewitness accounts of the State Police’s atrocities against protesters of theContinue Reading
In UP, when Irfan’s (name changed) calf died, instead of tending to the carcass, he locked up the women and children of his family inside the house, and ran to the local police station, where he pleaded with the police that he did not kill the calf. This incident wasContinue Reading
Horror stories were retold at a meeting of activists from UP convened by the People’s Union of Civil Liberties in Mumbai recently. The meeting was held in Bandra and saw more than 600 people in attendance to listen to the story of “People under Seige: state violence in Uttar Pradesh”.Continue Reading
Situated in the Jawhar Taluka in Palghar, the Government Ashram School at Dehre welcomes you with its vibrant walls adorned with the Warli paintings and artistic strokes of the Adivasi students that study here. The traditional stick figures playing the culturally significant Tarpa instrument or performing the Warli dance orContinue Reading
Tucked away on the far flung hills of Palghar district, the small Warli hamlet of Wangadpada had been facing serve water woes for over a decade. In this period, the women from the community walked for hours to the nearest natural spring or well with earthen pots stacks on theirContinue Reading
In the Warli mythology it is said that when God was creating mankind, he gave the Warli communities a plough, therefore, they became the ‘Kulambi-farmers’. This belief seems to run true for the people of Jawhar Talika’s Wangadpada village who devote their time and energy in cultivating crops for theirContinue Reading
Their cow-dung plastered wooden walls and hay-lined roofs… their traditional customs of keeping their cattle and livestock indoors… their livelihood avenues… their food… their religious beliefs… their toys and tools… Every aspect of the lives of Wangadpada’s Warli tribes reflects their age-old dependence on and reverence for the nature andContinue Reading
Fifty years ago, global CO2 emissions came in at 16 gigatons a year. In 2018, there was a staggering spike in emissions to 51 gigatons! This statistic was revealed Prof. Amitav Mallik, founding member of the climate think tank Pune International Centre, at the first Conference on Environment Sustainability heldContinue Reading
Thousands of trade union workers, both men and women, representing a total of 10 Central trade unions, turned up at the Azad Maidan last Wednesday (January 8). They were a part of the nationwide strike against the Centre’s ‘anti-labour’ policies in a movement that saw nearly 17 lakh trade unionContinue Reading