Launched in 2002, Khabar Lahariya (which means news waves in Bundeli) has come a long way from the days people didn’t take its women seriously. “When we went out to gather news, people wouldn’t talk to us,” recalls 33 year-old Kavita (she does not wish to use her last name), regional editor of the paper. “They wondered why we were doing a man’s job.

Initially these women faced into opposition as journalism was thought to be a man’s job