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Dear Reader,
As we celebrate the festival of lights, good tidings beckon women power in India, with the Rajasthan judiciary set to see an avalanche of female judges presiding over the courts. ThePrint, which reports the story, predicts that this bodes well for India’s young women to bolster their intervention in public affairs and induce structural changes in the matters of gender rights and safety.
And from neighbouring Gujarat, Mojo Story first revealed that the Centre had, in fact, approved the premature release of Bilkis Bano’s rapists, and killers, which was then officially confirmed in a Gujarat government affidavit. This was even as the CBI Special Court had strenuously opposed the discharge. Mojo Story discusses the impact, and what can be done to overcome the technicalities to reverse this distortion of justice.
TrueCopy Think reports from the ground in Palakkad, the rice bowl of Kerala, on how the procurement of paddy has been delayed by the private mills for months together even after the harvesting. With no facility to store the harvested crop, small and marginal farmers lament the inattention of the government and their plight.
The expansion of the Barnawapara Wildlife Sanctuary, in the Mahasamund district of Chhattisgarh, recommended by successive governments, has been on hold for the last five years because a gold prospecting project adjacent to the earmarked forest has found priority. The Probe investigates.
For more such stories from our grantees this week, please read on.
Wishing you all a very Happy Diwali!
Warmly,
Sunil Rajshekhar
IPSMF
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