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Hapur, Uttar Pradesh

Sep 02, 2025

The weight she carries in her heart

In villages around Hapur in western Uttar Pradesh, Dalit women sometimes share their grief with other women to gather courage, but their unseen mental health struggles are dismissed as fate, not illness

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Author

Varsha Prakash

Varsha Prakash is an independent writer, translator, researcher and educator. Her work traverses the intersections of Dalit-Adivasi struggles, gender and education. Varsha Prakash is a 2025 Laadli Media Fellow.

Editor

Kavitha Iyer

Kavitha Iyer has been a journalist for 20 years. She is the author of ‘Landscapes Of Loss: The Story Of An Indian Drought’ (HarperCollins, 2021).

Translator

Arjun Rai Gupta

Arjun Rai Gupta is a translator based in Stuttgart, Germany. He works on the use of emerging technologies from industry for storytelling, heritage preservation, and activism.

Photo Editor

Binaifer Bharucha

Binaifer Bharucha is a freelance photographer based in Mumbai, and Photo Editor at the People's Archive of Rural India.