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Goals not guns: How a girls football team in India’s Manipur beats violence | Football

March 23, 2024 mpsingh No Comments News Asia, beats, Features, Football, Gender Equity, girls, goals, Guns, India, Indias, Manipur, Sports, Team, Violence

Andro, India – Smart in her neon blue jacket and bright red sneakers, Hemarani slips out of the large thatched-roof mud hut and stands squinting up at the rising sun. The sky is streaked pink over the Nongmaiching Ching hills, and the wide open field before her is still swimming in fog. Cows are grazing [...]read moreGoals not guns: How a girls football team in India’s Manipur beats violence | Football

An Indian kitchen fights prejudice with love from violence-hit Manipur | Food

New Delhi, India – Bidotama, 26, is in the kitchen stirring peanuts in a pan. Every few minutes, she turns to her best friend, Mardza, 25, who is busy chopping tomatoes and slicing U-morok, a hot chilli variety, that will go into the special chicken curry bubbling on a two-burner gas stove. They speak in [...]read more