Category: Social

  When politics burnt down a library 5,000 thousand books were lost in a massive fire that broke out in the AKG Memorial Library in Thalookara village, Kerala. The library fell as a victim of political tussle between two rival parties and was torched in the wee hours of March 23. More than 5,000 books, several rare manuscripts and numerous musical instruments got burnt down. The cost of the damages were estimated to be around Rs. 40 lakh.  What followed the arson and destruction of the library is a heart-warming…

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In the Kachabali village, about 330 km away from Jaipur, a woman sarpanch created history by culminating majority votes in her favour for the anti-liquor campaign that she initiated this year in January. The polling was conducted by the excise department of the state on Tuesday and 94% of the voters said that they want a complete ban on the sale of alcohol in the village, per a report in The Indian Express. The campaign was launched on Republic Day this year when women from the village raised the demand to ban alcohol…

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For 13 years, Jai Gobind Singh and his wife Vijayanti Devi, residents of Mohuddiganj in Bihar’s Sasaram district have lived apart. Though never formally separated, Vijayanti had vowed never to return. The couple were married about two decades ago. But since then, Vijayanti, 50, said she was fed up of her husband’s chronic alcoholism, beatings and abuses. In 2003, Vijayanti took her daughter, then just a year old and walked out of the house. “He used to consume alcohol every day. Sometimes he used to assault me too. One fine…

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