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In Karthikappally and other villages along the backwaters of Alappuzha district in Kerala, children make their own chariots and participate with gusto in an annual ritualistic procession

Kuttikkuthira of Kerala: children, chariots and festive cheer

Text Editor : Sharmila Joshi
Karthikappally
women carrom player

When the Queen strikes: the story of a carrom champion

Text Editor : Sharmila Joshi
Jalgaon
Bahurupi artists in West Bengal easily metamorphose into different characters during a performance, but are finding it hard to change their work roles with changing times

Bahurupi: a family of many faces

Bishaypur
women holding chain

Music, high on pot

Usimalai
Collecting tiger prawns

From river to plate: the journey of the Sundarbans tiger prawn

Jogesganj
Hasan Ali is one of 2.4 million people who live on impermanent ‘chars’ or sandbars on the Brahmaputra – without electricity, health care or other necessities, frequently shifting home, their lives dictated by the constant flux of the mighty river

Struggles of the sandbar people

Panikhaiti
Hirabai Bendkule slicing tomatoes

Notebandi takes the sauce out of Nashik’s tomatoes

Dhondegaon

Down to the last puff

Koyilandy
Playing dhol

Dhol on wheels

Bolpur
Women rolling beedi

Note ban sends beedi units up in smoke

Photos and Text : Arunava Patra
Jangipur
These women dig wells for others in Sivagangai district, Tamil Nadu but have no water for themselves

Not a drop to drink

Ayyampatti
women dancing

Songs of the Sundarbans

Text Editor : Sharmila Joshi
Sundarbans