I am committed to blog on
12/14/2012 | Mary Madiga
Mary Madiga’s blogs aimed at a global audience have made people listen in her own state for the first time.
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Thanks to Panos, I am now seen and heard
12/06/2012 | Bhan Sahu
Bhan Sahu, Indian social activist describes how her blogs for Panos have inspired her son to help stop migration from her village.
The world’s biggest school lunch programme
10/16/2012 | Divya Gupta
India’s pledge to feed its hungry children sees it dishing up to 120 million school dinners a day. On World Food Day we visit Akshaya Patra, a charity helping deliver the world’s biggest school lunch programme.
Gender equality starts at home
09/04/2012 | Bhan Sahu
What’s the best way to engage young people in social movements and politics? Bhan Sahu explains the small steps helping to create a new generation of leaders who want to change the system from the bottom upwards.
The village women who dare to bring change
08/22/2012 | Bhan Sahu
Bhan believes you can’t wait for the government to change society – change needs to start with individuals. She tells us about three ordinary women who are challenging traditions in their villages.
Seeking a new state for the powerless
08/16/2012 | Mary Madiga
“We have no land, no education and little power to make decisions. So, we don’t have a voice.” In her own words, our blogger Mary Madiga explains why she has joined a movement fighting for a new state: Telangana.
Olympic triumph unites communities in troubled Manipur
08/13/2012 | Thingnam Anjulika Samom
The London Olympics are over but the athletes’ achievements have the potential to leave a lasting legacy. Mary Kom, a flyweight boxer from Manipur in north-east India, didn’t win gold – yet her performance inspired her state and her country.
India’s women boxers come out fighting
08/07/2012 | Ranjita Biswas
Flyweight boxer and Olympic bronze medalist, Mary Kom, is a hero to many aspiring boxers in Kolkata. Ranjita Biswas visits a poor neighbourhood of the city where boxing has given young women the confidence to challenge social norms.
‘Land and natural resources must belong to the people’
07/18/2012 | Bhan Sahu
In her latest blog Bhan Sahu tells us about a non-violent civil resistance movement, inspired by Gandhi, which aims to bring about social and land reform in India.
Indian men increasingly opt to be sterilised
07/10/2012 | Deepa Jainani
Jag Roshan Sharma wanted a vasectomy in order to pay his children’s school fees. The choice to limit the family sizes is increasingly common and cash incentives are offered to women living below the poverty line to use birth control.
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