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Into the precarious world of India's weavers

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Men playing cards near the shore

Card games by the bay

Rahul M.
Mahabalipuram
Calf and boy

'This calf went missing after I took this photo'

N. Swamy Bassavanna
Mangala

Book of Bandipur

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Chamarajanagar
Cowherd and his cattle

'That is where the leopard and tiger attack'

M. Indra Kumar
Mangala
The tiger

Close encounters with the Prince of Bandipur

K.N. Mahesha
Kunagahalli
Kaniyanpura Colony

Home with the harvest in Bandipur

K. Sunil
Kaniyanpura
Women at work in the fields

‘We have hills and forests and we live here’

Nagi Shiva
Lokkere
The old weaving skills of Banka district, Bihar, are vanishing due to low returns, poor state support and cheaper imports. Only a few families in Katoria village still weave. This film features some of them

Tussar: the crumbling cocoon

Shreya Katyayini
Katoria

Make in India – with bamboos and leaves

P. Sainath
Ganjam, Kandhamal
Rath Yatra

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P. Sainath
Narayanpatna
A Brokpa preparing for a journey to Chander village, around 12 kilometres from Lagam.

Brokpa: ‘The jungle is our mother'

Ritayan Mukherjee
Tawang
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