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For 34 years, Siwjee Singh Yadav has been running the only primary school on a sandbank island in the Brahmaputra river. It is a testament to how much he values a good formal education

The headmaster of Dabli Chapori

Priti David
Photographs : Riya Behl
Editor : Vinutha Mallya
Majuli

Marking Muharram in Suru valley

Photos and Text : Shubhra Dixit
Photo Editor : Binaifer Bharucha
Tai Suru
At 82, Bapu is the sole keeper of all knowledge related to a craft that Rendal stopped practising six decades ago

‘My hands still have life’

Sanket Jain
Editor : Sangeeta Menon
Photo Editor : Binaifer Bharucha
Rendal

Ezhil anna, he made me from clay

M. Palani Kumar
Editor : Pratishtha Pandya
Photo Editor : Binaifer Bharucha
Chennai
In this region of the Himalayas, shepherds brave the wet and cold weather to graze their sheep and goats. They also protect them from wild animals on the Gangotri range where they live for up to nine months a year

Shepherding in Garhwal: a dangerous life

Priti David
Saura

‘If they don’t get food, how will we eat well?’

Photographs : Ritayan Mukherjee
Text : Medha Kale
Photo Editor : Binaifer Bharucha
Editor : Vinutha Mallya
Sangli

‘This is the final chapter of our bhisti job’

Photos and Text : Aslam Saiyad
Photo Editor : Binaifer Bharucha
Editor : S. Senthalir
Bhuleshwar

Vegetable trade on the Dal: in troubled waters

Muzamil Bhat
Srinagar

Puli gets by on shells, scales, heads and tails

Text : Nitya Rao
Photographs : Alessandra Silver
Cuddalore

The anonymous shop in Hyderabad's Old City

Sreelakshmi Prakash
Editors : Sharmila Joshi and Sukhada Tatke
West Hyderabad

Life of my mother – in the light of a lamppost

M. Palani Kumar
Madurai
On December 11, at the Tikri protest site, farmers dismantled tents, packed belongings and set out to return to their villages – joyful, victorious, sad to leave their 'homes' here, determined to keep up the struggle

Tikri farmers: returning home proud, resolute

Sanskriti Talwar
Photographs : Naveen Macro
Editor : Sharmila Joshi
Tikri
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