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New Delhi– As the nation marks the first anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic-induced nationwide lockdown, comes journalist-turned-filmmaker Vinod Kapri’s compelling book, “1232 km: The Long Journey Home” (HarperCollins), a true account of human grief, grit, and gumption.
The lockdown left millions of migrant labourers without jobs, food and home. Desperate and helpless, most took to the road, embarking on a long, often fatal journey home.
This is the account of one such journey that seven migrants from Bihar – Ritesh, Ashish, Ram Babu, Sonu, Krishna, Sandeep and Mukesh – undertook on their bicycles that lasted for seven days and seven nights. Accompanying them was National Award-winning filmmaker Vinod Kapri.
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Good shepherd: Tsering Dorjai
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Stanzin Dorjai
The sole shepherdess of Gya village spends 11 months a year alone with her flock high in the desolate mountains of Ladakh
Last month Khenrab Phuntsog, wildlife guard at Hemis National Park in Ladakh, received a frantic telephone call. Could he urgently visit Gya, a remote village in Ladakh, and help the caller catch a couple of wild wolves that had attacked her sheep? The wolves had already killed four sheep in the last three days, the caller said.
So Phuntsog immediately set off with his colleague and reached Gya by late evening. And it was not hard to locate the house of the caller, Tsering Dorjai. She is after all the only herdswoman in the village and everyone knows her.
Release Thin Thin Aung : Women Activists Urge India, Global Stakeholders to Focus on Myanmar
In a statement, activists have held that the journalist and pro-democracy activist is one among many held arbitrarily by the military in Myanmar.
People march during a protest against the military coup in Dawei, Myanmar April 13, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of Dawei Watch/via Reuters
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New Delhi: Several prominent women rights advocates from all walks of life in India have released a statement urging the Myanmar military to release journalist and activist Thin Thin Aung and other illegally detained pro-democracy protesters.
In an appeal, both to the military which assumed power since the coup and to the international community including transnational business stakeholders, the activists have urged that the brutal violence perpetrated on protesters in Myanmar end and people’s rights be restored.