New Delhi: ThePrint journalists Sagrika Kissu and Manasi Phadke have been honoured at the Laadli Media Awards for Gender Sensitivity 2025. The awards were formally announced at a function held in Mumbai Thursday.

Sagrika Kissu, an Assistant Editor at ThePrint, won both the regional and national prizes in the web-feature category, for a story on the precarious lives of women orchestra dancers in UP and Bihar. Having spent several days with the dancers who perform at weddings, birthdays and even funerals, she gathered their testimonies of harassment, unstable earnings and stigma that follows them home. The feature shows how these male preserves have gradually overshadowed traditional family celebrations. Men book performers to deliver bawdy routines, and villagers treat a dancer’s name as

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