{"id":55047,"date":"2023-05-12T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/may\/12\/streets-ahead-a-landmark-for-the-delhi-newspaper-run-by-homeless-children"},"modified":"2023-05-12T16:00:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T07:00:47","slug":"streets-ahead-a-landmark-for-the-delhi-newspaper-run-by-homeless-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55047","title":{"rendered":"Streets ahead: a landmark for the Delhi newspaper run by homeless children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Balaknama\u2019s reports on sexual abuse, police brutality and child labour, written by teenagers, have transformed lives in India<\/p>\n<p>In a dingy basement office in Delhi, a semi-circle of young teenagers sit on woven mats discussing the news. It is the monthly editorial meeting at <a href=\"https:\/\/balaknama.org\/\">Balaknama newspaper<\/a> (Hindi for the \u201cvoice of children\u201d), which is a newspaper produced by children who live and work on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>About 90 <em>batuni<\/em><em><strong> <\/strong><\/em>(oral) reporters, under 18 and mostly illiterate, collect stories for the eight-page tabloid, passing on news from their neighbourhoods to four writers and editors, who then verify the details and write the stories.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/may\/12\/streets-ahead-a-landmark-for-the-delhi-newspaper-run-by-homeless-children\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balaknama\u2019s reports on sexual abuse, police brutality and child labour, written by teenagers, have transformed lives in IndiaIn a dingy basement office in Delhi, a semi-circle of young teenagers sit on woven mats discussing the news. It is the monthly &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3730,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[245,59,860,62,238,671,672,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-global-development","category-global-education","category-india","category-media","category-newspapers","category-newspapers-magazines","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55048,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55047\/revisions\/55048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}