In Jehanabad district, it is the marginalised Musahars who get picked up in prohibition cases. The legal battles that follow are expensive, and the burden falls on the entire family
Umesh Kumar Ray is a PARI Fellow (2022). A freelance journalist, he is based in Bihar and covers marginalised communities.
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Devesh
Devesh is a poet, journalist, filmmaker and translator. He is the Translations Editor, Hindi, at the People’s Archive of Rural India.
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Joshua Bodhinetra
Joshua Bodhinetra is the Content Manager of PARIBhasha, the Indian languages programme at People's Archive of Rural India (PARI). He has an MPhil in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and is a multilingual poet, translator, art critic and social activist.