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 Photographs curated by Photo Editor
 
 Binaifer Bharucha
 
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 Details of each group of photos and name of photographer:
 
 
 Group 1: Women
 
 
 Top Left, Bottom Right: Woman in Araku Valley
 
 Madhu Gopal Rao
 
 
 Top Right: Landless farmers scavenging on a landfill
 
 Vivek Muthuramalingam
 
 
 Bottom Left: Mhajwar Adivasis, Matringa village, Surguja District, Chattisgarh
 
 P. Sainath
 
 
 
 Group 2: Bending
 
 
 Top Left: Transplanting rice in Someshwar Valley, Kumaon, Uttarakhand.
 
 Vaibhav Kaul
 
 
 Top Right: Rani in Ramnathapuram district, Tamil Nadu stirring molasses to make palm jaggery. The juice was tapped from several palm trees that her husband climbs for a living.
 
 P. Sainath
 
 
 Bottom Left: Scavenging on landfills, Kyalsanahalli, near Bangalore.
 
 Vivek Mutharamalingam
 
 
 Bottom Right: Stone crusher near Rampurhat, Birbhum
 
 Madhusree Mukherjee
 
 
 
 Group 3: Scavenging
 
 
 Top &amp; Bottom Left: Woman’s hands and legs after scavenging the landfill at Kyalsanahalli near Bangalore. A dog keeps the woman company.
 
 Vivek Muthuramalingam
 
 
 
 Group 4: Leaf picking, fishing, tacking
 
 
 Top Left: Making plates of leaves
 
 Sweta Daga
 
 
 Top Right: Tea planter, Coonoor Bottom Left: Kumta fisherwoman
 
 Vivek Muthuramalingam
 
 
 Bottom Right: Migrant labourer from Osmanabad district, now a cobbler in Pune
 
 Namita Waikar
 
 
 
 Group 5: Girls
 
 
 Top Left &amp; Bottom Right : Araku Valley series
 
 Madhu Gopal Rao
 
 
 Top Right &amp; Bottom Left: Rural girls in Ooty, Tamil Nadu
 
 Shamshad Khan
 
 
 
 Group 6: Bicycle rides, Crossing a river
 
 
 Top Left: Father takes daughters to school on bicycle in tea gardens, Dooar, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal
 
 Sandipan Raha
 
 
 Top Right: Woman and boy
 
 Umashanker Tamburu
 
 
 Bottom : Woman crossing river at Village Rani Gaon, District Basti, UP
 
 A Ram Pandey
 
 
 
 Group 7: Labour, landlessness and paddy transplantation
 
 
 Top Left: Quarry at Rampura
 
 
 Top Right: Vachati Labourers
 
 Vivek Muthurumalingam
 
 
 Bottom Right: Landfill at Kyalsanahalli
 
 Vivek Muthurumalingam
 
 
 Bottom Left: Paddy transplantation in Koraput
 
 P. Sainath
 
 
 
 Group 8: Working alone
 
 
 Top Left , Top Right, Bottom Left – Women at work in Rayagada District
 
 Natasha Narwal
 
 
 Bottom Right: Araku Valley Series
 
 Madhu Gopal Rao
 
 
 
 
 Group 9: Village life
 
 
 Top Left , Top Right &amp; Bottom Left – Women and girls, Rayagada District, Orissa
 
 Natasha Narwal
 
 
 Bottom Right – Araku Valley Series
 
 Madhu Gopal Rao
 
 
 
 Group 10: Eyes and Tattoos
 
 
 Left – Girl in Arakku Valley
 
 Madhu Gopal Rao
 
 
 Right – Ancient Art of tattoing amongst the old Pannia Tribes, very fast being replaced by new age ornaments. Malamvalam Village Colony, Gudulur Otty,
 
 Tamil Nadu Dec 2006
 
 Shamshad Khan

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