By Frida Toppo Bishnupur, Sept 15, 2020: Aboung Kumar Gangmei of Manipur is worried as starvation stares at him. However, the 37-year-old father of three has no plans to go back to Bengaluru, a southern Indian city where he had worked as a waiter in a restaurant for eight years.Continue Reading
Gaya, Sept 13, 2020: A man has carved out a three-kilometre canal to take rainwater from nearby hills to fields of his village, Kothilawa in Lahthua area of Gaya in Bihar. “It took me 30 years to dig this canal which takes the water to a pond in the village,”Continue Reading
By Sowmiya Ashok Chennai, September 13, 2020: Pratik Mammode, a doctor, has spent much of the past year on the front lines of India’s fight against the coronavirus. Until recently, the 26-year-old junior resident doctor had been on Covid-19 duties, donning and doffing personal protective equipment day in, day outContinue Reading
By Stella Paul Hyderabad, Sept 12, 2020: Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi warns of the danger that more than 1 million children could die, not because of the Covid-19 pandemic, but because of the economic crisis facing their families. In an exclusive interview with Inter Press Service, Satyarthi said that withoutContinue Reading
New Delhi, Sept 8, 2020: Schools across India have now been closed for six months due to Covid-19, but this means vastly different things for different people. For the child in urban Himachal Pradesh, where Internet penetration is higher than 70 percent it likely means online schooling, Zoom classes andContinue Reading
New Delhi, Sept 6, 2020: “When will you come home?” the daughters of doctor Ajit Jain would ask when they used to talk over call late at night. The nodal officer for novel coronavirus at the Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital in Delhi has not been home for nearly fiveContinue Reading
Guwahati, Aug 26, 2020: A small state in India’s troubled northeast has managed to contain the Covid-19 pandemic much better than some larger states with more resources. Mizoram is tucked away between Myanmar and Bangladesh, about 1,500 miles from New Delhi. It registered its first case on March 24—the dayContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mahabaleshwar, Aug 24, 2020: A 106-year-old dilapidated hospital has become a state-of-the-art healthcare facility in Maharashtra, thanks to a Catholic priest. Giving a new lease of life to the Morarji Gokaldas Rural Hospital in Mahabaleshwar is among several success stories of Father Tomy Kariyilakulam, who hasContinue Reading
By Vallari Sanzgiri Chennai, Aug 23, 2020: The past few months have been peppered with news articles regarding the public transport sector’s help in providing emergency rides during the lockdown period. Auto drivers, especially women, in metropolitan cities such as Thane and Chennai, have been hailed for joining essential-service-workers andContinue Reading
New Delhi, Aug 17, 2020: Derry, a small village in Northern Ireland experienced much joy on August 15 when a mural of Sister Clare Crockett, one of its daughters, was opened four years after an earthquake in Ecuador killed her. Now, people from around the world visit Derry to prayContinue Reading