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Tribal women of Bihar singing and dancing. Men playing the drums

The song of Sohrai

Shreya Katyayini
Text Editor : Sharmila Joshi
Chichirya
Casting a net in Fort Kochi

Casting a net in Fort Kochi

V. Sasikumar
Kochi
The keepers of the 460 horses of this hill station in Maharashtra’s Raigad district walk or run upto 25 kilometres uphill every day through Matheran’s dusty soil, with horse-borne tourists

Holding your horses in Matheran

Suman Parbat and Sinchita Maji
Matheran
classroom full of boy students narrating poem

A potato a day kept the doctor away for years

P. Sainath
Idukki
A tea garden worker in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal runs a unique ‘bike ambulance’ free of cost for villagers, and he was recently awarded the Padma Shri

Karimul’s medical motorcycle diaries

Souryajit Nath & Arindam Bachar & Debannita Biswas
Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India
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

V. Sasikumar
Text Editor : Sharmila Joshi
Karthikappally
women carrom player

When the Queen strikes: the story of a carrom champion

Shreya Katyayini
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

Ankan Roy & Sagarika Basu
Bishaypur
women holding chain

Music, high on pot

Aparna Karthikeyan
Usimalai
Collecting tiger prawns

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

Urvashi Sarkar
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

Ratna Bharali Talukdar
Panikhaiti
Hirabai Bendkule slicing tomatoes

Notebandi takes the sauce out of Nashik’s tomatoes

Chitrangada Choudhury and Aniket Aga
Dhondegaon
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