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Into the precarious world of India's weavers

PARI Contributors

‘I have been going into this hell for decades’

Bhasha Singh
Coimbatore
Sarubai singing

Sarubai: 5000 songs and still singing

Namita Waikar and PARI GSP Team
Photographs : Binaifer Bharucha
Video : Samyukta Shastri
Editor and Series Editor : Sharmila Joshi
Wadavali
Leta Paharia showing rat traps

Shut your trap!

Anupam Paul
Text Editor : Sharmila Joshi
Ghaghri
Band members  of the Sargam Mahila Band

Drums and dreams beyond pickle and papad

Puja Awasthi
Dhibra
Baul singing

Basudeb Baul: singing the ballads of Bengal

Sinchita Maji
Text Editor : Sharmila Joshi
Bolpur
Fuyaramji stands guard while his camels are busy eating

The fable of Lek and Lakshmi

Sweta Daga
Sadri

The poet of small thingis

Namita Waikar
Majalgaon

'Let's solve the pricing problem once and for all’

Parth M.N.
Osmanabad
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
Text Editor : Sharmila Joshi
Katoria
Freedom fighters gathering

The last hurrah of the prati sarkar

P. Sainath
Sangli, Shenoli
Headporters walking in Matheran

Heavy lifting in the hills

Sinchita Maji and Suman Parbat
Text Editor : Sharmila Joshi
Matheran
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