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Phulabai Bhong sings about Ashadhi Ekadashi and the fast observed by Lord Vitthal's devotees on the auspicious day.  It is believed that the practice releases one's soul from the cycle of life and death

Fasting to liberate the soul

Namita Waikar and PARI GSP Team
Nimgaon Ketki

A billion salutations to Gautam Buddha

Namita Waikar and PARI GSP Team
Majalgaon

Bhimrao: 'A diamond born to his parents'

Namita Waikar and PARI GSP Team
Nandgaon

What is the worth of a woman’s endless work?

Namita Waikar and PARI GSP Team
Nandgaon
Sex workers in Kamathipura have been struggling to give their children a life of dignity. Here is a poem inspired by two stories about the realities faced by these women caught in a pandemic of misery

Hoping against hope in Kamathipura

Pratishtha Pandya
Kamathipura
Punjabi farmers protest against the farm bill 2020

The Bella Ciao of the farmers at Delhi’s gates

Poojan Sahil and Karwan e Mohabbat Media Team
Sonipat

‘A drop of sweat is worth a lakh of rupees’

Namita Waikar and PARI GSP Team
Nandgaon

‘A couple of acres to pay my debt’

Sarbjot Singh Behl
Amritsar

Songs of love for the migrant away from home

Namita Waikar and PARI GSP Team
Video Editing : Sinchita Maji
Photographer : Amol Ubhe
Editor : Vinutha Mallya
Kolavade
Illustration: Labani Jangi, originally from a small town of West Bengal's Nadia district, is working towards a PhD degree on Bengali labour migration at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata. She is a self-taught painter and loves to travel.

Iron in the migrants’ soul

Gokul G.K.
Aurangabad
When the lockdown enhances the suffering of human beings you’ve grown up knowing and caring about for decades, says this photographer, it forces you to express yourself in poetry, beyond the lens

The photographer writes – for better or verse

Purusottam Thakur
Dhamtari

Locked-down with blood on the tracks

Pratishtha Pandya
Aurangabad
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