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The harsh lives of the women kite makers of Khambhat and Ahmedabad stand out in stark contrast against the brilliantly coloured skies they light up with their labour

Kite makers craft Gujarat’s Sankranti skies

Pratishtha Pandya
Photographs : Umesh Solanki and Pratishtha Pandya
Ahmedabad

The Rani of Thoothukudi’s salt pans

Aparna Karthikeyan
Photos and Video : M. Palani Kumar
Thoothukudi

Petrol price hikes fuel Sidhi salesmen’s struggles

Anil Kumar Tiwari
Editor : Sharmila Joshi
Sidhi
It's been hard days for powerloom weavers in the city's Bazardiha cluster – with lockdowns and monsoon flooding. But it’s the UP government’s review of their electricity subsidy that has them the most worried

Varanasi weavers: facing a string of setbacks

Samiksha
Editor : Sharmila Joshi
Varanasi

Nats at Singhu: nearing the end of their rope

Amir Malik
Sonipat
Yashodabai (left), Radhabai (mid) and Hausatai. They are her sisters in law

Hausabai Patil: her heroism passes into history

P. Sainath
Sangli

Santo Tanti’s songs of sadness, work and hope

Himanshu Chutia Saikia
Jorhat

On a bittersweet road: from rakhal to rasogullas

Anjuman Ara Begum
Editor : Sharmila Joshi
South West Garo Hills
Maharashtra’s famed wrestlers, particularly those in Kolhapur, a great centre of this sporting discipline, have been devastated by Covid-19, two floods, cancelled tournaments, falling income and poor diets

In Kolhapur: wrestlers’ diets, weighty problems

Sanket Jain
Editor : Sharmila Joshi
Kolhapur

Koli women: fish, friendship and fighting spirit

Shraddha Agarwal
Editor : Sharmila Joshi
Colaba

'I invite you, Ganaraya, to a family wedding'

Namita Waikar and PARI GSP Team
Pune

Slowly dropped the mahua in Umaria

Priti David
Umaria
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