Musheera Ashraf, Twocircles.net Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh: India’s digital story is often told through numbers. Millions of UPI transactions every minute. Seamless online services. Government schemes linked to apps. But far away from this vision, in villages where phones are shared and passwords are guessed, women continue to stand at the margins of a world that has shifted faster than they...

Sami Ahmad, TwoCircles.net In Bihar the long queues seen outside polling booths on November 6 and 11 were matched only by the lines that soon formed at railway stations. As soon as voting ended thousands of people rushed to catch trains the cheapest and most familiar route out of the state. These were not regular commuters. They were migrant workers...

Midhat Samra, TwoCircles Ranchi: Suman Devi watched me photograph the pink auto and said that people come here to click pictures because the bright colour fascinates them but few bother to understand the struggles of the women who drive them. The pink auto scheme was launched in Jharkhand in 2013 after the Nirbhaya case to address women’s safety concerns. It aimed to...

Shah Khursheed, TwoCircles.net Srinagar: Bareera, 24, a postgraduate student from Pulwama, remembers the first signs of something being wrong with unsettling clarity. In Class 11, while living in a girls’ hostel in Srinagar, her periods suddenly stopped. One month passed, then another. The silence of her body frightened her. She whispered her worry to her roommate, who tried to calm...