He’s a freedom fighter, a farmer, a family man – and a cyclist extraordinary at the age of 97. Meeting Ganpati Bala Yadav recently in Maharashtra’s Sangli district was a deeply satisfying and moving experience
Ratan Biswas pushing a bicycle mounted with five bamboos weighing around 200 kg across 17 km
Farmers, labourers and shepherds in rural Odisha wear delicately woven ‘rain hats’ while working. Made by Adivasis, they’re sold by small vendors, who carry them on bicycles across long distances
Srilal Sahani is a fish-seller by day and an extraordinary musician by evening – he rides hands-off on a bicycle while playing a dhol and cymbals behind him – in Santiniketan, West Bengal
Koilawallahs cart quintals of scavenged coal from mining dumps on their modified bicycles to Godda. For this strenuous three-day walk, they earn barely a third of the minimum wage for manual labour in Bihar
The women’s cycling movement in Pudukkottai district of Tamil Nadu is a powerful metaphor for freedom
Welfare measures have provided some security to families in Sanmaheswar village of Odisha, but done little to stop Prasanna Sabar and many others from migrating to the cities
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