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In India’s embattled news media, women are fighting to be heard
Journalists have been targeted for harassment, and some women are only allowed to speak to the press if they have a male chaperone.
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Arti Kumari, whose story was at the heart of the India’s Daughters series, training to run a seven-minute mile, one of the tests for a job in the Central Industrial Security Force of India. Credit...Andrea Bruce for The New York Times
By Emily Schmall
Dec. 20, 2023, 1:07 p.m. ET
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Not many outsiders come to Belarhi, a remote agricultural village in northern India. Yet during reporting trips there for the recently published series India’s Daughters, New York Times journalists were always shown great hospitality.
On our first trip to the village in March 2022, my colleague Shalini Venugopal Bhagat and I arrived to find Arti Kumari, one of the lead subjects of our series, and her family fully assembled. Her mother, Meena, had taken the day off work to greet us. Arti and her sister, Shanti, sent away the elementary-school-age children they usually tutored in math and Hindi. Their father, Anil, a farmer, left the fields early. The walls of their home were freshly painted. Rangoli — ornamental chalk drawings — adorned the clean-swept floors. A delicious feast simmered on the open stove.
My colleagues and I began India’s Daughters with a question: Why were Indian women leaving the work force?
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Emily Schmall is a correspondent for The Times. More about Emily Schmall
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