Written By- Pankhuri Story By: Arushi Narchal “One day I came back from school and found out that I had to leave home and live in somebody else’s house. I was 12 years old and completely unaware of what would happen next. My father told me that everything would be fine.” Prashant, 16, shares his […]

Story By: Arushi Narchal Written By: Kajol Tanaya Sangeeta drops her head in grief and looks up again with a half-hearted smile. Thirty-four years old Sangeeta Oraon lives in a small village in the Gumla district of Jharkhand with her husband and two daughters. “My studies were frequently interrupted with domestic duties. I would be […]

Story By: Priyank Samuel Written By: Md Mahafooz Alam Mithu Mondal is a 40-year-old mother of two and her husband is a daily wage labourer. They live in Dakshin Mundapara, Mathurapur II Block, South 24 Parganas of Sundarbans in West Bengal. The locality is in the coastal part of Sundarbans which is cyclone-prone. When a […]

In the land of the Oraon tribe, where the aspirations of women are barely directed to the light of the day, Sumanti Rao stands as the only woman with a graduation degree. Her day of graduation was perhaps the happiest day in the lives of her parents. Sumanti was ambitious to pursue a career in […]

Story By: Arushi Narchal Wriiten By: Kajol Tanaya “The village has several challenges and shortcomings yet we would never leave our homeland. No matter how tough our lives become each passing year, we at least live with dignity here” The mystical land of Sundarbans stretches across the coastal West Bengal as a testimony to the […]

By: Vrushali Kadam Research Associate, The Gender Desk Gender Spotlight: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence CASA is gearing up to observe 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence. To be held between November 25 (International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women) and December 10 (Human Rights Day), the initiative is an […]

CASA, in its 75 years of operation in the humanitarian sector, has gathered immense learning and insights on the social landscape that regulates life in the rural margins of India. From assisting the disaster-affected communities in rebuilding their lives to empowering the marginalised segments through empowerment schemes or activities, CASA’s long string of social work […]

For the people residing in remote areas across India, access to infrastructural facilities has become a rare privilege. At times the natural barriers in the landscapes, such as a towering hill or a deep lake cut off a small premise from the rest of the village area, making it a secluded world on its own. […]

Story & Edits By: Priyank Samuel Images: Priyank Samuel & Sanjeev Singh Written By: Md Mahafooz Alam The second wave of COVID-19 in India was severe than the first wave. There was a sudden surge in the number of cases again in March after the decline in September last year. In comparison to the first […]