Married as a young girl into a family who worked her hard and beat her often, Sampat fought back, leaving her in-laws and eventually becoming a champion for beleaguered women throughout Uttar Pradesh. Young women like Rekha, a fourteen-year-old Untouchable, three months pregnant and homeless, and unable to marry her unborn child’s father because of her low caste. Or fifteen-year-old abandoned wife [...]
Director’s note: The world is warming and the climate is changing, whether we like it or not. And it’s going to impact each one of us in some way or the other. The next time a heat wave hits you or a mosquito bites, think about it. But change is inevitable and humans have the gift of shaping their own future to [...]
Tomorrow We Disappear from Rebel Yell on Vimeo. Hundreds of years ago, musicians, artists, and performers roamed the Indian countryside, crafting a common, cultural mythology through their performances, stories, and shared art. Eventually, their wanderings were relegated to a stretch of vacant land outside West Delhi, called Kathputli Colony. Since it was settled in the 1950s, the colony has become [...]
www.telegraph21.com It was a challenge to keep the human aspect of the tragedy alive, yet succeed in bringing about some clarity on the reasons behind the crisis.” Deepa Bhatia Over the past decade, burdened by debt, nearly 200,000 Indian farmers committed suicide, a shocking statistic largely ignored by the mainstream media. Nero’s Guests follows Indian journalist P. Sainath as [...]
By: Marie Elvshammar Beauty is a word that is translated as ”a characteristic of a person”. Beauty is the perfect word to describe Nicole Marett, a 24 year old girl that is using cosmetics as her tool to fight for the exploited victims of human trafficking. How did you get interested in the beauty industry, and what was it that made [...]
From Not For Sale Campaign Front Page Photo: Arvind Balaraman This week the International Justice Mission released a 12 minute documentary sharing an incredible story of hope. Suhana was forced to work in a brothel in India, and was rescued by IJM and placed in an aftercare program before being re-trafficked into Mumbai. This documentary tells the uplifting story of [...]
-How was The Sound of Hope birthed? And what is so pleasing leading it? In 2007, I went to Africa for the first time. I spent two and a half weeks in the tiny country of Swaziland, which is located in Southern Africa. This country is only about the size of New Jersey, with a population of less than 1 [...]
By: Inji Pennu Photo: The End. Image by Thulasi Kakkat. As the debate on the pesticide EndoSulfan is gaining momentum in the Stockholm Convention in Geneva; Kerala, the southern state of India is up in arms online and on the streets for pressurizing the Indian Government to favor the ban. Kasargod, a district in the state of Kerala is living [...]
