‘This is pent-up anger of 40 years’: Why Adivasis and Lambadas are fighting in Telangana
The two Scheduled Tribe communities are locked in a battle for rights but face the same problems – water scarcity, failing crops, debt.
Scroll.in / January 2018
Independent Journalist | Bylines at Scroll.in, The Hindu Business Line, The News Minute, Hindustan Times, Economic and Political Weekly, Himal Southasian etc | Formerly Deccan Chronicle, New Indian Express | Alumni @ACJIndia | s.ayesha.minhaz@gmail.com
The two Scheduled Tribe communities are locked in a battle for rights but face the same problems – water scarcity, failing crops, debt.
Scroll.in / January 2018
It is little over 10 years to the day 11 women from the Kondh tribe in Vakapalli, an Adivasi hamlet in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh, were allegedly raped by personnel of the state’s elite anti-Naxal force, the Greyhounds, on August 10, 2007.
Scroll.in / August 2017
The basti dawakhanas provide diagnosis and treatment for minor ailments free of cost.
Scroll.in / May 2018
There is no official data (publicly available) to establish the magnitude of the deaths of child labourers.
The News Minute / October 2017
The reaction towards the attempt to annul child marriages is unabashedly patriarchal, but both the government and NGOs need to start changing that.
The News Minute / August 2017
A 222-year-old jail in Telangana is seeing a flurry of visitors willing to pay for a taste of prison life and, in the process, contemplate the meaning of life and freedom
The Hindu Business Line / February 2018
Amid a galloping demand for English medium schools, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh make Telugu compulsory for Std I to XII. Students, parents and educators cry foul
The Hindu Business Line / January 2018
The course's innovative textbook draws on popular culture, but sceptics say that draconian campus rules must be done away with before sensitising students.
Scroll.in / January 2016
From providing technological support in the field of wildlife forensics to disease diagnostics, the lab has been efficiently supporting conservation of India’s wildlife since 2000. The lab has investigated over 1,330 cases of wildlife-related crimes.
Hindustan Times / August 2016
In the run-up to the religious ceremony, which will be performed by 1,500 priests from seven states, the official machinery has been working round the clock to ensure a glitch-free event. As a consequence, the line between the chief minister's personal pr
Scroll.in / December 2015
The Government of Andhra Pradesh is awaiting clearance from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change to divert 124 square kilometres of forestland to build Amaravati capital city region. What is the procedure to divert forestlands? What will
Economic and Political Weekly / June 2017
As a beef festival is denied official permission, the controversy escalates with various groups jumping into the fray.
Scroll.in / December 2015
Telangana government is acquiring their land for a proposed reservoir through an executive order, bypassing the 2013 law
Scroll.in / September 2016
The preemptive steps to prevent dengue, which were to be taken before the monsoon, were only taken after the deaths of two siblings.
The News Minute / October 2016
A mixed group of former prison inmates and undertrials have been working at Chanchalguda’s women-only petrol station. An initiative of the Prisons and Correctional Services of Telangana state, the station is an attempt to provide employment to as many wom
Scroll.in / July 2017
(Shared byline) Be it temple tanks or rainwater harvesting structures, South India had set the standard in water conservation. Now they are just forgotten traditions
Down To Earth / May 2017
Three years since its construction, the school has still not been inaugurated by the government.
The News Minute / January 2016
Sultana Yasmeen’s journey to hell and back began from the first week of her marriage. Unwilling to work himself, her husband didn’t agree with Sultana earning a livelihood either. He loathed a working woman so much that he cut her nose and lips off.
The News Minute / December 2015
On Monday, January 18, 2016, as outrage broke out across India over the suicide of 26-year-old Rohith Vemula apparently in reaction to his suspension by the authorities of the University of Hyderabad, the Dalit research scholar’s brother and other members
Scroll.in / January 2016
The Bhadradri Thermal Power Plant is being constructed despite the absence of environmental clearances and a stay from the National Green Tribunal, activists say.
Scroll.in / December 2015
The different avatars of surgical births across India.
Himal Southasian / March 2016
While an unpredictable monsoon triggered a crisis in the lives of a five-member agricultural family of Atmakur mandal of Warangal, official apathy has forced them to become daily-wage labourers. Families of farmers who committed suicide have not received
Deccan Chronicle / July 2015
Fragments from the remarkable life of the 49-year-old who raised Rohith and two other children as a single parent.
Scroll.in / January 2016
Ignoring government advisories against travelling to or working in conflict-hit countries, is landing Indians in crisis, like the recent case in Libya. In July 2014, the ministry of external affairs had advised against travelling to Libya. It was the same
Deccan Chronicle / August 2015
Mohd. Akram Feroze entered a village near Ramgarh, not knowing that he needed a permit for the same
Deccan Chronicle / August 2015
Farah has been working as a domestic labourer since she was very young. She doesn’t know who her parents are or from where she hails from.
Deccan Chronicle / July 2015 / [Pdf , 192 KB]
Support and monitoring school dropouts could curb 90 per cent of trafficking
Deccan Chronicle / July 2015 / [Pdf , 222 KB]
The Government Victoria Hospital, also known as Gosha hospital, is a maternity care centre, known for serving referral cases from over five districts. But, the infrastructure falls so short that two patients share each bed.
The New Indian Express / July 2013 / [Pdf , 412 KB]
The decision to ban the 160-year-old service came with the realisation that it is a thing of the past.
The New Indian Express / July 2013 / [Pdf , 240 KB]
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