GALLERY

Talking Albums

Pictures and their spoken story
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Toddy tapper

Karukavel Nadar climbs 5,000 feet daily during season to tap sap from the straight and high trunks of palm trees  
P. Sainath
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Meena Women

Meena women: custodians of the white walls

This Talking Album , a part of the Vanishing Communities series on PARI, records the story of the Meena tribe in Tonk, Rajasthan 
Sweta Daga
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Woman with baby holding plastic bucket

'Chindhiwalli' women

A community of migrant women barters old clothes for utensils in Mumbai
Dipti Bapat & Abhishek Joshi
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Woman showing finished saree

The weavers of Walajapet

The story of M. Murugaiya and his family of weavers
Sweta Daga
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Woman paddy farmer sliding portions of seedbed to the transplanter

The Green Army

Kerala’s 'Green Army’ is addressing low paddy productivity and a shortage of farm labour
Asawari Sodhi
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Coal carrier pushing coal on a bicycle without a chain

The koilawallahs of Godda

Recycling energy takes cycles and lots of energy
P. Sainath