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Volume 005: Crime

What Lies Beneath, A Feminist Exhumation

crime reporting in India

F-Rated Interview: The Joys of Reporting Crime with Suneeta Prajapati

June 12, 2026

Crime reporting, though long considered a ‘hard’ beat to be covered by serious (read: male) reporters, is a core part of Khabar Lahariya’s grassroots journalism. For one reporter, being put on the crime beat took her back home. Suneeta Prajapati discusses the strategies and compromises that allowed her to carve out a niche in journalism and earn a place in the hearts of many girls from rural India.

A Day at a One Stop Centre in Delhi

May 16, 2025

The wave of the massive Nirbhaya protests prompted the government to set up 36 One Stop Centres (OSCs), one for every state and UT, on a pilot basis in 2015. Today, there are 819 operational OSCs across the country. A One Stop Centre is meant to integrate victim-survivor’s access to different mechanisms of justice such as police, hospitals and courts, while also providing emergency shelter and psycho-social counselling.

Mental health and prisons

The Thin Blue Line between Care and Ethics of Care in an Indian Prison

February 4, 2025

Through her recent work on a public interest litigation, Maitreyi’s understanding of mental health in prisons saw a shift. What happens when care turns paternalistic? Can the promise of freedom be used as a tool to negotiate/manipulate? Are our imagined alternatives to this system any better? This interview is an attempt to make sense of some of these questions.

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Law and (Brahmanical) Order

January 17, 2025

Imagine you were out for wedding shopping and three days later, you die in police custody because they thought you were a thief. Or that you were arrested on suspicion of murder, simply because you were within a 5 KM radius from the crime scene.

फ se Field, ज se Jail: Sarita Aur Madam – Ep. 4

फ se Field, ज se Jail: Sarita Aur Madam – Ep. 4

January 9, 2025

In the last episode of “Sarita aur Madam”, Krupa shares a lasting memory of Sarita as she knocks at Prayas’ door once again, this time with a desire to learn.

At TTE, we are very invested in expanding the notion of the field, and bring to life the lives of various people who make a field humane.

फ se Field, ज se Jail: Sarita Aur Madam – Ep. 3

January 9, 2025

When Sarita knocks on Prayas’ door, it is not always a problem that she brings. Sometimes, she brings a unique solution which makes one look at the problem differently. In the Episode 3 of “Sarita aur Madam”, Krupa recounts an anecdote where Sarita saved the day and refused to bargain while she was at it.

फ se Field, ज se Jail: Sarita Aur Madam – Ep. 2

January 9, 2025

We all remember the lockdown. Some remember it like yesterday and others believe it happened a long time ago. But, what did 2020 look like for sex workers and social workers? In the Episode 2 of “Sarita aur Madam”, Krupa tells us Sarita’s response to the lockdown.