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Manoj Chaurasia

June 2021

  • Twin sisters Tripti and Pari, who lost both their parents due to the Covid-19 coronavirus, play with their toys at a relative’s home in Bhopal.

    ‘My dream was buried’: the children of India orphaned by Covid

    Officials and NGOs say orphans now face the double threat of neglect and being vulnerable to exploitation

May 2021

  • Health workers wearing protective gear ride a tractor as they sanitise a street with disinfectant amid the coronavirus pandemic in Leh, India

    Covid rips through rural India’s threadbare healthcare system

    The pandemic overwhelming the big cities is reaching areas of Bihar where there is one doctor for 40,000 people

October 2020

  • Indian children on bus

    Covid-19 prompts 'enormous rise' in demand for cheap child labour in India

    Charities warn that seven months of the pandemic has set the country back decades on child exploitation

March 2020

  • On the outskirts of Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh, Nidhi Patel and her husband, Vikas Patel, centre right, both migrant workers, carry their children as they walk home to their village.

    India racked by greatest exodus since partition due to coronavirus

    Millions of workers flee cities as wages evaporate, with many walking hundreds of miles home

January 2020

  • Priyanka Kumari teaches Janhavi Kumari.

    Indian state school has two teachers, a cook and one pupil

    Shy seven-year-old girl is the only student after exodus to private schools in rural Bihar

November 2019

  • A street vendor in Patna prepares litti chokha, stuffed wheat flour balls.

    Indian city's cow dung ban leaves a bitter taste for street food vendors

    Stall owners fear for livelihoods, saying burning dung essential to flavour of Bihari favourites

July 2019

  • Nepalese army personnel rescue local people after a heavy rainfall in Kathmandu, Nepal

    Death toll from floods in south Asia rises to more than 100

    Millions displaced in India, Nepal and Bangladesh, with Assam and Bihar among the worst-hit regions

January 2019

  • A man has his beard shaved

    Indian sisters pretend to be boys to keep barbershop afloat

    Teenagers used disguise to maintain customers after their father became ill

October 2018

  • Women take part in a protest march on International Women’s Day in New Delhi in March 2016

    Indian schoolgirls beaten for resisting boys' sexual harassment

    Six boys and one woman arrested in eastern Bihar state after attack at boarding school

August 2015

  • Victims of witch hunting in India attend a consultation in 2010 in Guwahati, north-east India.

    Five women killed in India by villagers suspecting witchcraft

    Around 50 villagers arrested over killings in Jharkhand where there are frequent attacks on women believed to have cast curses

July 2015

  • CAPTION CORRECTS THE YEAR - FILE - In this Wednesday, March 18, 2015 file photo, Indians climb the wall of a building to help students appearing in an examination in Hajipur, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. Education authorities in eastern India say 600 high school students have been expelled after they were found to have cheated on pressure-packed 10th grade examinations. (AP Photo/Press Trust of India, File) INDIA OUT

    Hundreds of Indian teachers quit amid crackdown on fake qualifications

    More than 1,600 teachers in Bihar state resign after authorities ordered to ensure that teachers with fake degrees face prosecution

May 2015

  • A child lines up with her mother in a temporary shelter during food distribution at Tundikhel, in Kathmandu, Nepal.

    India rescues children from traffickers exploiting Nepal earthquake aftermath

    More than 20 children rescued by Indian authorities from human traffickers targeting families who lost livelihoods in last month’s disaster

October 2014

  • Dalits at a ceremony honouring survivors of caste-based atrocities. Dalits in Bihar have long faced

    Lynching of boy underlines how the curse of caste still blights India

    Sai Ram, burned alive because of a stray goat, was just one of 17,000 Dalits to fall victim to caste violence in the state of Bihar

July 2013

  • Schoolchildren eat their free midday meal at a primary school in India

    Indian headteacher arrested after fatal school food poisoning

    Meena Devi is arrested while travelling to court to hand herself in a week after tragedy left 23 children dead
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