Outvoted: Unmuting the voiceless

Newsreel Asia

Listen to unreported and underreported stories of marginalised communities in India through cinematic stories and soundscapes.

Episodes

  1. Demolished Hopes

    11/21/2023

    Demolished Hopes

    Rekha owned a home in Khori Gaon, a settlement in the foothills of the Aravalli mountain range in North India. But a 2021 Supreme Court ruling labeled the area she lived in as forest land and rendered her homeless.

    17 min
  2. Women Power

    10/27/2023

    Women Power

    Lakshadweep Islands boast some of the lowest levels of domestic violence and the highest percentage of land ownership among women. This remarkable achievement is because of a unique tradition.

    17 min
  3. Dirty Rotten Secrets

    01/04/2023

    Dirty Rotten Secrets

    Chandigarh may win laurels of being one of India's cleanest cities. But step into its outskirts and another truth is revealed through foul-smelling air and a mountain of garbage in an area called Dadu Majra.

    18 min
  4. Love Gone Bad

    11/04/2022

    Love Gone Bad

    Navya grew up in a household where she saw her mother being beaten. She too ended up in an abusive relationship but found the courage to wrangle out of it.

    27 min
  5. The Haze Lifts

    10/04/2022

    The Haze Lifts

    Emotionally-strung and experimental youth are easy baits for drug peddlers selling cheap and dangerous concoctions filtering in from failed states. A desperate mother shocked to see the transformation and hallucinations of her child leans on an uncommon tool to free an addict.

    23 min
  6. Tribal Agency

    06/30/2022

    Tribal Agency

    Indigenous communities need to have a say in changes being made to their land. An anthropologist, a doctor and a filmmaker who have interacted closely with them, tell us why.

    30 min
  7. A fracture and a truce

    05/22/2022

    A fracture and a truce

    In the late 1990s, an injured Jarawa boy from the jungles of Andaman islands was medically cared for by settlers. That interaction set off a domino of changes; both good and bad.

    29 min
  8. Transforming island tourism

    04/18/2022

    Transforming island tourism

    Can the Andaman and NIcobar islands survive mass and luxury tourism? One entrepreneur offers an alternative.

    30 min
  9. Cycling through Tsunamis

    04/17/2022

    Cycling through Tsunamis

    How a young female Nicobari cyclist is fighting odds and inspiring others to spin.

    30 min
  • 9 Episodes

About

Listen to unreported and underreported stories of marginalised communities in India through cinematic stories and soundscapes.

Information

More From Newsreel Asia