By Editors
Jyoti Yadav, member of the Network of Women in Media, India, was awarded the Second Prize in The Statesman Awards for Rural Reporting 2023. She won the award for two stories published in The Print.
The first story, Bihar’s Dalit women at the mercy of greedy doctors—robbed of uterus in 2012, kidneys now, highlights systemic issues within Bihar’s healthcare system, including corruption, lack of regulation and societal attitudes that devalue the lives of poor women. The second story, After Punjab, now Haryana youth fleeing to US–by any ‘donkey’ means possible, uncovers the reasons behind Haryana’s rural youth’s mass exodus via the Donkey route.
The award organisers commended Jyoti for being “a relentless chronicler of rural and small-town India at a time when journalism has shifted its focus to big cities and metropolitan urbanism”.
Congratulations, Jyoti!
