Inspiring Stories of People and Communities Fighting Discrimination and Inequality

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India Discrimination Report

29 Sep, 2020

Chennai

In the Nick of Time

Seventy-eight year old Zakruddin lives in Dumil Kuppam, a Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB) settlement along the sea in Chennai. He lives alone; his wife fell ill a year ago and moved to her nat...

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India Inequality Report 2022: Digital Divide

25 Sep, 2020

Bihar

Fighting to End Gender Discrimination: Johani Kisku

She has built a community that helps poor girls who can’t afford to study or support themselves. She sees in them her own image, her own struggles, and her own childhood. What keeps her going is her e...

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India Inequality Report 2022: Digital Divide

24 Sep, 2020

Bihar

Surviving Caste Discrimination: Mahender Kumar Roushan

When he tried facing the world upfront turning pain into anger, he experienced more atrocities and subjugation. However, today the ‘rebel’ is no longer caught in the clash between morality and violenc...

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India Discrimination Report

14 Sep, 2020

Chennai

Despite All Odds

Forty-year-old Rajini Ammal is a transgender who is a priest at the Angalaparameshwari temple in MKB Nagar in Chennai. Her life has been through the wringer just like any other trans persons and so sh...

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India Discrimination Report

14 Sep, 2020

Chennai

On Auto Mode

Thirty-five year old Mohana is a COVID warrior. She is one of the women auto drivers in Chennai who volunteered to distribute food packets to some of the poorest families between Guindy and Marina bea...

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Education

03 Sep, 2020

Odisha

Community ownership helps improve education in a village school

The only Upper Primary School in Bagdafa village, a tribal area, in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district had 176 students but only four classrooms and four teachers. The school had poor and failing infra...

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