Rewriting rules and making headlines - rural women reporters show how
By Arpana, New Delhi, July 19 : With their grit and drive, they could be making headlines. But this group of women from Uttar Pradesh write them instead in their fortnightly newspaper Khabar Lahariya that goes to 200 villages and represents the best in journalistic courage and ethics.
Meera, Shanti, Kavita, Mithilesh... from the Chitrakoot and Banda districts in the heart of India's most populous state are award-winning journalists, whose newspaper in the Bundeli language has broken stories, pinned the administration on varied issues and presented a societal mirror on gender, health and other issues.