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Photographs curated by Photo Editor Binaifer Bharucha
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 & 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 & Bottom Right : Araku Valley series Madhu Gopal Rao
Top Right & 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 & 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