Ishrat Jahan’s close friend, Sabahat, said “Ishrat is a very bold and dynamic person. It has been almost two years now since Ishrat was sent to jail. She has been discriminated in the jail. She was sent to jail for standing up for her community and protecting the Constitution. And for this she was sent to jail.”
Year after year, residents of 400 villages surrounding the Ghagra river face the ordeal of spending monsoon on the rooftops to escape floods. There is little hope that this will change anytime soon.