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Oct 14, 2024 | 
cntraveller.in | Jigyasa Mishra
If new parents often wear the same battle-torn look, there’s a reason. “Tired” does not even begin to describe how they feel. They all desperately need a holiday. However, the prospect of travelling with a toddler in tow can seem, by turns, intimidating and exasperating, which is why many of them tuck away their vacation dreams until their tots are grown enough to not send them into a panicked overdrive. It does not have to be like this though.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
newslaundry.com | Jigyasa Mishra |India Spend
Baghpat has a low sex ratio, and women from other states – many of whom are trafficked – are married off to men here and face several forms of abuse. “It was a happy marriage for the initial few weeks, but eventually it turned into a nightmare,” says Shamita*. “I was waiting for my husband to return from work, when his elder brother entered my room and closed the door. He raped me,” says the 29-year-old who lives in Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
article-14.com | Jigyasa Mishra
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Nov 26, 2023 | 
nationalheraldindia.com | Jigyasa Mishra
In a state whose archers have represented India in three Olympics, 83-year-old Tshering Dorjee Bhutia still makes bows and arrows the old-fashioned wayIt takes a while to realise that Tshering Dorjee Bhutia never earned his living from making bows. For 60 years, his income came from carpentry — mainly repairing furniture. But his inspiration came from archery, deeply embedded in the culture of his native Sikkim.
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
indiatimes.com | Jigyasa Mishra
“I was a child with no understanding of the world. They said I’ll be given good food, clothes and I’ll go to school, so I went with them," said Nisha, who was trafficked as a man from Nepal, but now lives the life of a transwoman in India. “Only when I realised that people in the new place didn’t understand my language, nor could I understand their language, I understood that I was trafficked,” she added.
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Jun 28, 2023 | 
indiatimes.com | Jigyasa Mishra
"We had no other option than to run away somewhere far from my home, located in Bundelkhand, to save our lives,” says 22-year-old Kriya, who recently moved to Lucknow with her partner Jyoti. Both Kriya and Jyoti hail from the region of Bundelkhand in North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Kriya fell in love with her classmate, 21-year-old Jyoti, while they were in eleventh standard. A couple of years later, Kriya’s younger brother got to know about the affair and told his family.
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Jun 13, 2023 | 
indiatimes.com | Jigyasa Mishra
“The only way to get acceptance and respect in the family and society as trans is to be financially independent,” says Bruna. “When I first started out as a tattoo artist, I would seek validation from my colleagues, family and clients but eventually, my work spoke for me and today, everyone in this area knows me very well. I am the only trans woman tattoo artist in this city, at least,” she says as she gets down from her car in the parking lot of Hauz Khas village in India’s capital.
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Apr 9, 2023 | 
scroll.in | Jigyasa Mishra
On September 11, Seeta*, 43, branded a witch, was thrown out of the village by her family. In August, her 29-year-old nephew had visited a bhopa, a faith healer, to find a solution to his parent’s ill-health and the problems he was facing with his career. “The bhopa told him that your kaki (aunt) is the reason why all of this is happening in your home.
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Apr 1, 2023 | 
thewire.in | Jigyasa Mishra
Bandipore (Jammu and Kashmir): “That evening when my water broke, I was in extreme pain. It had been snowing for the past three days. Whenever that happens and there’s no sunlight for days, our solar panels don’t get charged.” Shameena Begum, 22, is talking about the time of birthing her second baby in Wazirithal village of Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipore district. A village where the sun does not shine long enough, or even regularly – where people rely on their only source of energy: solar power.
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Apr 1, 2023 | 
thewire.in | Jigyasa Mishra
Bandipore (Jammu and Kashmir): “That evening when my water broke, I was in extreme pain. It had been snowing for the past three days. Whenever that happens and there’s no sunlight for days, our solar panels don’t get charged.” Shameena Begum, 22, is talking about the time of birthing her second baby in Wazirithal village of Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipore district. A village where the sun does not shine long enough, or even regularly – where people rely on their only source of energy: solar power.
