Global Voice Online
How do you make the voices of women in poor, rural areas of India heard? A hard-hitting community newspaper is a good place to start.
Khabar Lahariya is a women-run rural weekly newspaper produced in the local languages Awadhi, Bajjika,Bhojuri, and Bundeli in the Indian states of Utter Pradesh and Bihar. The paper is distributed to 80,000 readers across 600 villages.
It describes itself as a “local watchdog” and a “weapon of the weak,” reporting on injustices and corruption affecting rural communities that don’t normally receive media attention. Launched in 2002, Khabar Laharia became available online in February 2013.
Every year, international broadcaster Deutsche Welle holds a competition for the the best blogs produced over the past 12 months – this year, Khabar Laharia won the Global Media Forum Award. Jury member and blogger Rohini Lakshane called the paper “a shining example that a functioning democracy is dependent on access to information for all people.”………….[Read More]
