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Visible Work, Invisible Women: an online photo exhibition
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Mumbai
Feb. 21, 2015
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Kharif crops hit by drought, pulses take a Maha pounding
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Nearly 80,000 homeless elders go hungry
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How Mahabubnagar’s migrants build Mumbai
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Maharashtra's drought-hit farmers without bank accounts denied aid
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Study: Agri-corporates, not farmers, hog loans
Priyanka Kakodkar
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April 23, 2015
Unseasonal rain: 601 farmer suicides in Maharashra in just 3 months
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April 23, 2015
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Kumbharwada: a slice of pottery from Kachchh
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Mumbai
July 22, 2014
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'Only 3 Maharashtra farmers ended life due to unseasonal rain'
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April 23, 2015
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State government's logic for its low farmer suicide count: Only 3 blamed rains
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Mumbai
April 23, 2015
Drought hits 90 lakh farmers in Maharashtra
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April 23, 2015
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Beef banned, but no state-run cow shelters in sight
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Mumbai
May 4, 2015
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Only 12% potential of Maharashtra’s 70,000 small dams used
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Mumbai
April 23, 2015
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One year of PARI
P. Sainath
Mumbai
Dec. 20, 2015
The journey of a rural runner
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Mumbai
March 14, 2016
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PARI reports on demonetisation
PARI Contributors
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Jan. 2, 2017
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Caged in concrete: an Adivasi urban nightmare
Jyoti Shinoli
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Sharmila Joshi
Mumbai
March 6, 2018
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'I am a farmer, I walk this long journey'
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Mumbai
March 14, 2018
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After the March, the aftermath...
Parth M.N.
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Mumbai
March 14, 2018
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They run the farm, they made the March
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and
Parth M.N.
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Sharmila Joshi
Mumbai
March 15, 2018
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'In my village, I could laugh easily'
Sharmila Joshi
Mumbai
March 28, 2018
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A long march of the dispossessed to Delhi
P. Sainath
Mumbai
June 22, 2018
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The farmers who help keep democracy alive
Vishaka George
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Samyukta Shastri
Text Editor :
Sharmila Joshi
Mumbai
June 29, 2018
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The library of long journeys
Apekshita Varshney
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Mumbai
July 4, 2018
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Caste can’t smother Bhateri’s toothless smile
Bhasha Singh
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July 13, 2018
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Once upon a time in Saliha…
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Samyukta Shastri
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A bumper crop in insurance for corporations
P. Sainath
Mumbai
Nov. 12, 2018
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A flood of assessments, a drought of humanity
P. Sainath
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Nov. 15, 2018
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Insurance firms earn 15,795 crores in 2 years
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Mumbai
Nov. 15, 2018
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We need a special session of Parliament…
P. Sainath
Mumbai
Nov. 19, 2018
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Life after death on the farm
Sharmila Joshi
Mumbai
Nov. 23, 2018
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The Swaminathan Commission reports
PARI Contributors
Mumbai
Nov. 23, 2018
Train stories from rural India
PARI Contributors
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Jan. 25, 2019
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The singers and poets of rural India
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Mumbai
Feb. 1, 2019
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The Grindmill Songs Project: all stories so far
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Feb. 11, 2019
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Cattle stories from the countryside
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Feb. 17, 2019
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The fight for forests, the struggle for land rights
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Mumbai
March 8, 2019
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On pins and needles 12 hours a day
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March 14, 2019
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Centrestage in the countryside
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March 15, 2019
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Short film: looting farmers at the Mandi
Yashowardhan Mishra
Mumbai
July 1, 2019
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Balappa Dhotre's craft is carved in stone
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What we should do about Covid-19
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Mumbai
March 27, 2020
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Locked down with cancer on Mumbai footpaths
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Hit with cancer, Covid-19 and without shelter
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Who will carry the palanquins of the rich now?
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Mumbai
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The migrant and the moral economy of the elite
P. Sainath
Mumbai
June 8, 2020
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Labourers’ lives: migrating feet, settled grief
Jyoti Shinoli
Mumbai
July 27, 2020
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‘We didn’t bleed him enough’
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Mumbai
Aug. 10, 2020
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Where rural India becomes the teacher
PARI Education Team
Mumbai
Aug. 3, 2020
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Mumbai's homeless: 'Our masks floated away'
Aakanksha
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Mumbai
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The village that remained faraway forever
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Sept. 8, 2020
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PARI wins Laadli Media Award, 2020
PARI Team
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Nov. 20, 2020
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PARI wins WAN-IFRA Digital Media Award
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‘I can only survive, I can’t live my life’
Chaitra Yadavar
Mumbai
Jan. 7, 2021
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Rich farmers, global plots, local stupidity
P. Sainath
Mumbai
Feb. 6, 2021
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Forbes, India and Pandora’s Pandemic Box
P. Sainath
Illustrations :
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Mumbai
April 16, 2021
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‘I can’t do video editing in the village’
Subuhi Jiwani
Mumbai
April 23, 2021
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In Mumbai: auctioned cabs, anguished drivers
Aakanksha
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Mumbai
Sept. 3, 2021
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Every Indian language is your language
P. Sainath
Illustrations :
Labani Jangi
Mumbai
Sept. 30, 2021
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Farmers win on many fronts, media fails on all
P. Sainath
Illustration :
Antara Raman
Mumbai
Nov. 20, 2021
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The Mumbai guard who never knew security
Aakanksha
Illustrations :
Antara Raman
Editor :
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Mumbai
Dec. 14, 2021
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Growing 50 years older in and with Dharavi
Sharmila Joshi
Mumbai
Dec. 15, 2021
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Give good journalism a chance
P. Sainath
Mumbai
Dec. 20, 2021
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Open letter to the Chief Justice of India
P. Sainath
Mumbai
Dec. 23, 2021
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A vegetable vendor’s quest for a just world
Mithun Kumar
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and
Sumer Singh Rathore
Translator :
Medha Kale
Mumbai
April 5, 2022
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Hard work and dying dreams on Planet Plastic
Sharmila Joshi
Mumbai
April 20, 2022
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Teaching with stories of everyday people
PARI Education Team
Mumbai
Sept. 26, 2022
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Unity in heterogeneity, delight in diversity
P. Sainath
Illustration :
Labani Jangi
Mumbai
Sept. 30, 2022
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Mid-day meal: curbing hunger in the classroom
PARI Team
Mumbai
Nov. 14, 2022
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Love and a place of one’s own in a metropolis
Aakanksha
Editor :
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Mumbai
Jan. 4, 2023
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Annadata and Sarkar Bahadur
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April 24, 2023
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Hanging by strings on Mumbai locals
Aakanksha
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June 5, 2023
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M.S. Swaminathan lives on in farmers’ hearts
P. Sainath
Mumbai
Oct. 3, 2023
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Robo says...
Aakanksha
Editor :
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Mumbai
Sept. 14, 2024
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Crafting the beats: Dahisar’s karigars
Aayna
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Mumbai
Dec. 13, 2024
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Into the wild
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Jan. 28, 2021
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Feb. 9, 2021
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Feb. 9, 2021
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Feb. 9, 2021
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