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Raksha Kumar is a multimedia journalist focusing on human rights.  She reports for The New York Times, BBC, Guardian, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Open Democracy, South China Morning Post, Scroll.in and The Hindu.

This website showcases Raksha’s work from 11 countries and across 23 states in India. Her focus areas are land and forest rights of the most vulnerable communities. Since these issues cannot be looked at in isolation, Raksha found herself increasingly reporting on armed conflict around resource extraction.

In 2015, she wrote, shot and directed a documentary film on Rationalists in Contemporary India, which was aired by India’s public broadcaster, Doordarshan.  READ MORE.

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Land & Forest
August 3, 2020

How a Year Under Lockdown Has Left Kashmiris Vulnerable to Land Grabbing

The Indian Government placed the country's northernmost state under curfew in August 2019. Unable to work, locals have been unable to pay rent—leading many to sell their land. Haider Drabu…
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July 13, 2020

‘It is more than just losing our homes’

Photo: CJP Nivada Rana, who belongs to the Tharu tribe, lives within the Dudhwa National Park, which sits on the India-Nepal border. Although unlettered and unaware of the law, her…
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Land & Forest
November 1, 2019

This Dalit woman from Bihar faked her death to protect her land

In many parts of Bihar, as indeed in most of India, a Dalit owning land is seen as an act of defiance, and Dalit women especially face the brunt of…
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Features
July 4, 2021

From debt to depression, the pandemic has hit India’s sex workers hard

Since the pandemic broke, India’s roughly nine lakh female sex workers are out of work, steeped in debt, and at risk from the virus Sex workers in Mumbai’s Kamathipura queueing…
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Features
April 26, 2021

‘I have never seen so many patients die.’ India plunges into coronavirus crisis.

The situation is so bad that people are hoarding oxygen, and crematoriums can’t cope with demand. epa09132234 Indian doctors wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) examine patients inside a COVID 19…
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Features
September 27, 2020

Indian Women Suffer Gender Discrimination Due To Well-Meaning Laws

Laws should not perpetuate existing social discrimination, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had once said. Any differential treatment among genders must not “create or perpetuate the legal, social, and economic inferiority…
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Features
September 25, 2020

Young Women Face The Brunt Of Indian Economic Downturn

India’s economy is in big trouble. In the last week of August, the federal government admitted that the GDP had shrunk by around 24%. For context, GDP of the U.S. contracted…
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May 3, 2018

How people in Chellakere have lost their livelihood to India’s ‘secret nuclear city’.

It is easy to miss the town of Challakere on the National Highway 48 between Bengaluru and Chitradurga. Easier still to not notice the small road that deviates to the…
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November 20, 2016

An Invisible Minority: Rationalists in Contemporary India

A promo of my upcoming documentary on the Rationalists in India. A group that puts scientific reason over religion also endorses tolerance. Hence, this group is crucial in maintaining India’s…
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January 15, 2013

A Long March to Land Reforms

50,000 landless people marched to Delhi from Gwalior, called it ‘Jan Satyagraha’ (people’s movement) – for framing a National Land Reforms Policy.
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