Chhattisgarh journalist booked for sedition for posting cartoons
2018-05-01
Counting Shukla, more than ten journalists have been booked under sedition charges in ChhattisgarhContinue Reading
Chhattisgarh journalist alleges harassment for exposing atrocities
2018-01-18
Journalists have been at the receiving end in Bastar region Continue Reading
Chhattisgarh chief secretary summoned in case against activists
2016-11-18
The activists are named in a First Information Report of a tribal murder caseContinue Reading
Bastar’s undaunted ‘Friends of the Poor’
2016-04-30
Gangaloor: Ten years ago, Sr. Ann Mary Chempakasseril faced a tribunal in front of 10,000 villagers, people that her order was founded to serve in the lush Bastar region of India. She and 13 others stood accused of collaborating with the Maoists, Communist insurgents known locally as “Naxalites,” in tryingContinue Reading
Journalist arrested in Chhattisgarh on 7-month old complaint
2016-03-27
Raipur: The Chhattisgarh Police today arrested another journalist in the Bastar region, the second in a week, in a case registered months ago on the complaint of a school principal, triggering allegations of witch-hunting. The police arrested journalist Deepak Jaiswal who works for Daindini newspaper in south Bastar’s Geedam. TheContinue Reading
Serving in the Red
2015-07-24
Jagdalpur: Sister Julie Mathew shudders as she recalls her brush with death on a cold winter night nine years ago. Stationed at a school for tribal girls in the remote central Indian village of Gangaloor, Sister Julie and her charges were roused from their sleep around 2 a.m. A mobContinue Reading