The age-old practice of child marriage is gaining popularity in the district of Koppal. It reports all-time high, 124 cases of child marriage, children as young as 10-years-old are getting married, at an age when they should be with their mother, she becomes the mother. Radhika (name changed) a 16-year-old girl, married off at the […]
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Those who lost their homes in the heavy monsoons of Karnataka last year are between a rock and a hard place, literally between the ruins of their houses. By Riya Sharma The heavy rainfalls of August 2019 left Mallavar Bassva Yeti in dire straits overnight when she lost a significant part of her house to […]
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The Central Ground Water board reports say, out of 33 districts in Karnataka 19 districts show concentrated levels of fluoride in groundwater making it unsuitable for drinking. By Swati Ekka Panduranga, a villager of Tujaram Nayak tanda in Sirwar, cannot access filter water as there is no filter water station near his village. His family […]
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While we happily bargain with vegetable sellers and buy at printed price from super markets, farmers in Shahapur live in extreme poverty along with debts. So much that, farmer suicide is a common issue in Shahapur’s villages. Bangalore, March 22, 2020 By Sanchari Ghatak Mehboobi, who lives in a joint family with her husband, son, […]
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The Hursgundagi villagers continue to live along the banks of the Sonthi Barrage, in spite of being provided with compensation to build houses in a new village. By Yashasvini Razdan Kantappa Pujari spends his afternoons in the courtyard of the Hursgundagi village temple where he talks about how he married off his sons with the […]
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The unpredictable weather over the past years confuses villagers in Bagalkot district as they face either excessive rainfall or enormous drought during different seasons. By Vivek Madhu Climate change, which influences the change in patterns of monsoon and weather events such as droughts and floods, has an impact on water in the rural areas of […]
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As a society, we need to be aware of the consequences of relying heavily on chemical fertilizers and their subsequent abusive usage. What’s at stake? It was oven-hot noon at Shahpur as Pasha carefully tossed ‘masala’ to his grassy crops. He was listening to songs playing from his phone which he kept in his shirt […]
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Lack of teachers is a growing issue in the rural education sector By Ileena Dutta On the way to the local Government school, there was a mud house with thatched roof and bare concrete walls. It was a summer afternoon and a young girl came out of the small kitchen that the family carved out […]
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Child Marriage continues to haunt this country when it is marching ahead in indicators such as Ease of Doing Business. It was May 2018. Revathi (name changed) a lanky 16-year-old girl loved going to the cream coloured building nearly five km away from her house. Her favourite subjects were Kannada and Social Sciences. She had […]
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