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'These korai fields are my second home'

Manavasi

Tuning into India's many musical instruments

Lakshman Katappa and his family, who belong to the Dhegu Megu ST community from Kodambal village in Karnataka and worship Goddess Mariyamma, dance and whip themselves to earn a living

Whipping and worship on Mumbai's streets

Mumbai Suburban

Dinkar Aiwale's many flutes of labour

Kodoli

Delhi’s Republic Day theatre of the optics

Chilla border

Tractor rally: On the road despite disruption

Sonipat
Tens of thousands of farmers from all over Maharashtra were at Azad Maidan this week in a sit-in organised by the Samyukta Shetkari Kamgar Morcha, to support the Delhi protests against the three new farm laws

Mumbai farm sit-in: 'Take back the dark laws'

South Mumbai
In Mumbai’s Azad Maidan, UP migrant Ram Mohan is among the labourers – many in their families back home are farmers – pitching tents for the thousands coming from Nashik to protest against the farm laws

Setting the stage for a farm rally in Mumbai

South Mumbai
From a 'turban langar' to tailors, trucks fitted with charging ports and mirrors, free laundry, massages, shoe-repairs – a very wide range of non-farmers are at Singhu too, offering solidarity through such services

The many-splendoured sewa network at Singhu

Sonipat

Lohri this year – the bonfire of our inanities

Sonipat
Women are central to agriculture in India, and many – farmers as well as non-farmers, young and old, across class and caste lines – are present and resolute at the farmers' protest sites around Delhi

Women at farm stir: 'We are recreating history'

Sonipat
The farmers at Delhi’s gates are fighting for a cause much larger than the repeal of three unjust laws. They are fighting for the rights of us all.

Protests against farm laws: full coverage