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    Ground Up

    Multimedia stories that provide an insight into how communities experience development at the grassroots.

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    Social Justice
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    Balancing multiple identities as a Nat community mobiliser
    by Teena Raj
    Location Icon Tonk district, Rajasthan ; Jaipur district, Rajasthan
    Social Justice
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    Left for debt: Microfinance fractures families in Kushinagar’s villages
    by Durga
    Location Icon Kushinagar district, Uttar Pradesh
    Climate Emergency
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    Kashmir’s farmers are picking vegetables over apples
    by Ilhak Ahmad Tantray, Umer Farooq Zargar
    Location Icon Budgam district, Jammu and Kashmir
    Education
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    In Nagaland, an old education system witnesses a revival
    by Nuklu Phom
    Location Icon Longleng district, Nagaland
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    Gender
    Sending aid to Manipur: Volunteers struggle with relief efforts
    by Anna, Kim
    Location Icon Manipur
    Diversity & Inclusion
    Other people’s debt: The downside of collateral-free group loans
    by Neha Pandey
    Location Icon Udaipur district, Rajasthan
    Gender
    A woman on a scooter: Navigating patriarchy in Rajasthan
    by Sunita Rawat
    Location Icon Ajmer district, Rajasthan
    Education
    Back to school? Not without a transfer certificate
    by Safeena Husain
    Location Icon Udaipur district, Rajasthan
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    A group of women in colorful sarees are gathered in a small room for a community meeting or workshop. One woman, standing near a banner on the wall, is speaking and holding a notebook, while the others sit on a mat on the floor, listening attentively_Nat community
    Social Justice
    Balancing multiple identities as a Nat community mobiliser
    by Teena Raj
    Location Icon Tonk district, Rajasthan ; Jaipur district, Rajasthan
    A group of rural women, dressed in colorful traditional sarees, sit on the ground in a semi-circle, attentively listening to a woman in a blue saree speaking during a community meeting held outdoors in a village_microfinance India
    Social Justice
    Left for debt: Microfinance fractures families in Kushinagar’s villages
    by Durga
    Location Icon Kushinagar district, Uttar Pradesh
    A farmer in Kashmir watering a field full of vegetables-vegetable farming
    Climate Emergency
    Kashmir’s farmers are picking vegetables over apples
    by Ilhak Ahmad Tantray, Umer Farooq Zargar
    Location Icon Budgam district, Jammu and Kashmir
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