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Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh

Dec 11, 2025

Leaving all her troubles in one bamboo basket

Mangali Bai from the Binjhwar Adivasi community depends on the forest for her livelihood but treats it as much more than a resource. A story about her connection with the forest

Photo Editor

Binaifer Bharucha

Editor and Translator

Pratishtha Pandya

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Author

Kiran Admache

Kiran Admache is an Adivasi woman filmmaker from the Gond community in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh. She is the co-founder of CICADA Creations, a grassroot initiative connecting communities through films. Her work documents cultural practices and lived experiences of her people.

Editor and Translator

Pratishtha Pandya

Pratishtha Pandya is a Senior Editor at PARI where she leads PARI's creative writing section. She is also a member of the PARIBhasha team and translates and edits stories in Gujarati. Pratishtha is a published poet working in Gujarati and English.

Photo Editor

Binaifer Bharucha

Binaifer Bharucha is a freelance photographer based in Mumbai, and Photo Editor at the People's Archive of Rural India.