All stories by Harshwardhan Prakash
'Part of life': Freed Navy veteran on missing daughter's wedding
Rediff.com14 Feb 2024"It happens. It's part of our lives," retired Indian Navy commander B K Verma who has returned from Qatar says with stoicism while talking about his daughter's wedding that he could not attend.
Traditional 'khatla', 'haat' still key to woo voters in MP's tribal Jhabua
Rediff.com12 Nov 2023The candidates believe that 'khatla' meetings and processions taken out in 'haat' (local markets) are quite effective and help in connecting better with voters living in remote and scattered settlements of Jhabua.
Politicians skip this remote MP village even during poll time
Rediff.com9 Nov 2023There are 763 registered voters among around a thousand residents of this remote village in Alirajpur assembly constituency, reserved for the Scheduled Tribes, but no candidate has bothered to visit the place, locals said on Thursday.
Sanitation staff perform last rites of COVID-19 victims
Rediff.com4 May 2020In the wake of guidelines to check the spread of coronavirus, only a few family members of the victims are being allowed to attend their last rites. At such a difficult time, the sanitation workers are helping these families by performing the last rites of the deceased.