Ever thought mental illnesses occurred only in cities? Not quite. However, unlike urban scenarios, there is no stigma attached to such ailments or discrimination against people suffering from them. “In a village scenario, any suffering by an individual, quicly spreads as information or concern to others in village and others come to know of it. [...]
To your left is a workshop where those recovering from leprosy are engaged in carpentry and to the extreme right is a treatment center for senior citizens, explains a social worker. Day in and day out, despite Anandwan, home to hundreds of people who come for leprosy treatment as residents or out patients, playing host [...]
Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, which shares borders with Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh, has been tainted— for decades now. And who else can attest to it better than its long-standing residents and people closely linked to social change in the region. “Ours is known as a naxal-infested district and so people from the outside world [...]
Located in the wilderness of the Bhamragadh taluka of eastern Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district, the Lok Biradari Ashramshala, Hemalkasa, isn’t your run-of-the-mill school. For one, majority of its pupils are tribal children. Secondly, education and all other facilities are provided free of cost to the children. But most fascinatingly, the pupils from this school located in [...]
Shodhgram, Gadchiroli: Despite being declared a ‘dry’ district by the Maharashtra government, one of the worst social problems that Gadchiroli faces is not a state-non-state battle, but addiction: addiction to alcohol and tobacco. This was one of the reasons why, when Dr. Abhay Bang’s SEARCH (Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health) began [...]
The ever-increasing problems of illegal parking of vehicles is not new to Navi Mumbai. A planned node-wise citizens’ initiative is the need of the hour to solve the parking menace and this has been publicly stated. Recently, a citizens’ initiative nudged the traffic and civic body to take action against illegal parking of public transport [...]
Kolhapur girl, Rahi Sarnobat will represent India in the forthcoming London Olympics 2012. Rahi is a part of the Indian shooting squad. She also earns the distinction of being the youngest in the team to represent India. There are only ten shooters who have qualified for London Olympics and Rahi is one of them. She [...]
The State Election Commission’s move to replace ink bottles with markers has received a reluctant welcome from voters. While some recognised its convenience, others had misgivings. The marker contains the same indelible ink that was used in the past to make a note of those who have cast their vote. Part of the strategy to avoid [...]
On Election Day of the municipal corporations of Maharashtra, the official website of the State Election Commission (SEC) (www.mahasec.com), from where voters could trace their details in electoral rolls as well as access information of the polling booths, crashed for a couple of hours due to “huge” overload. The website caters to all ten municipal [...]
Six-year-old Arundhati Anand, who had sustained grievous injuries to her head in the car accident that took place on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, expired two days after the accident. Arundhati was travelling to Pune when a car, in which senior journalist and Shiv Sena MP Bharat Raut was travelling, crashed into them in the Pune Mumbai [...]
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