About The Fourth Pillar

You have reached the pages of The Fourth Pillar, and we are delighted to have you here.

We are young men and women who walked away from air-conditioned rooms and corporate culture, drawn by the issues of villages and small towns that disappear in the haze of the metro cities.

We don’t know how to ride Bullet motorcycles and double-decker buses making noise about budgets and election results. But we do know how to tell you, in plain words, how much the price of Baba’s bidi went up, what Chachi will now pay for cooking oil, and how much — and why — the petrol for Rahman’s vehicle has gone up.

Whether it is a question about education or a demand for dowry, we know how to take on the people’s questions head-on.

We are the runaways who know how to light the torch of journalism from the pages of books…