{"slides": [{"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "From fields of despair \u2013 a march with hope", "src": "/media/original_images/01-_MG_0421.JPG", "src_resized": "/media/images/01-_MG_0421.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p class=\"p1\">On March 12, Azad Maidan in south Mumbai is an ocean of red flags and caps, when tens of thousands of farmers from across Maharashtra gathered peacefully after a week-long march from Nashik. They have walked for roughly 80 hours in the blistering heat since March 6 \u2013 to be seen and heard by the state government. On this last day of the <i>morcha</i> and protest, they are exhausted. But still, slogans are chanted and solidarity cemented. It\u2019s their call to a government that has consistently and heartlessly denied their demands, their rights.</p></div>", "album_description": "<p class=\"p1\"><i>In Nashik on March 6, they were at least 20,000. By the time the farmers reached Azad Maidan in south Mumbai on March 12, they were 40,000. Tired but triumphant, exhausted but unyielding</i></p>", "url": "/pa/albums/from-fields-of-despair---a-march-with-hope/", "slide_photographer": ["Binaifer Bharucha"], "image_captured_date": "15 Mar,2018", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/01-_MG_0421.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "From fields of despair \u2013 a march with hope", "src": "/media/original_images/02-_MG_0249.JPG", "src_resized": "/media/images/02-_MG_0249.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p class=\"p1\">Shankar Kishan Gaikwad (left) and Balu Chimna Bhagul (right) of\u00a0Chikadi\u00a0village, Surgana <i>taluka</i> in Nashik district. They made a\u00a0 tent as protection from the afternoon heat at the <i>maidan</i>, after walking for 180 kilometres from Nashik to Mumbai. With the hope that the government agrees to their long-standing demands \u2013 including fair prices for crops, land titles, and sustainable pensions</p></div>", "album_description": "<p class=\"p1\"><i>In Nashik on March 6, they were at least 20,000. By the time the farmers reached Azad Maidan in south Mumbai on March 12, they were 40,000. Tired but triumphant, exhausted but unyielding</i></p>", "url": "/pa/albums/from-fields-of-despair---a-march-with-hope/", "slide_photographer": ["Binaifer Bharucha"], "image_captured_date": "15 Mar,2018", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/02-_MG_0249.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "From fields of despair \u2013 a march with hope", "src": "/media/original_images/03-_MG_0258.JPG", "src_resized": "/media/images/03-_MG_0258.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p class=\"p1\">Farmers sitting in the blazing heat at Azad Maidan, listening to speeches by leaders of the Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha, which organised this milestone march. They put together 'hats' made of the cardboard boxes used to store bottled water, which was being distributed at the <i>maidan</i></p></div>", "album_description": "<p class=\"p1\"><i>In Nashik on March 6, they were at least 20,000. By the time the farmers reached Azad Maidan in south Mumbai on March 12, they were 40,000. Tired but triumphant, exhausted but unyielding</i></p>", "url": "/pa/albums/from-fields-of-despair---a-march-with-hope/", "slide_photographer": ["Binaifer Bharucha"], "image_captured_date": "15 Mar,2018", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/03-_MG_0258.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "From fields of despair \u2013 a march with hope", "src": "/media/original_images/04-_MG_0373.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/04-_MG_0373.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p class=\"p1\">An old farmer sits in the afternoon sun, drowsy with the heat and dust</p></div>", "album_description": "<p class=\"p1\"><i>In Nashik on March 6, they were at least 20,000. By the time the farmers reached Azad Maidan in south Mumbai on March 12, they were 40,000. Tired but triumphant, exhausted but unyielding</i></p>", "url": "/pa/albums/from-fields-of-despair---a-march-with-hope/", "slide_photographer": ["Binaifer Bharucha"], "image_captured_date": "15 Mar,2018", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/04-_MG_0373.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "From fields of despair \u2013 a march with hope", "src": "/media/original_images/05-_MG_0278.JPG", "src_resized": "/media/images/05-_MG_0278.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p class=\"p1\">A group of women cultivators just past the grassy area of the <i>maidan</i> \u2013 the police sit there too, quietly, listening to their conversations with reporters</p></div>", "album_description": "<p class=\"p1\"><i>In Nashik on March 6, they were at least 20,000. By the time the farmers reached Azad Maidan in south Mumbai on March 12, they were 40,000. Tired but triumphant, exhausted but unyielding</i></p>", "url": "/pa/albums/from-fields-of-despair---a-march-with-hope/", "slide_photographer": ["Binaifer Bharucha"], "image_captured_date": "15 Mar,2018", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/05-_MG_0278.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "From fields of despair \u2013 a march with hope", "src": "/media/original_images/06-_MG_0281.JPG", "src_resized": "/media/images/06-_MG_0281.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p class=\"p1\">Yuvraj Ganpat Gaikwad shows me his cracked feet caked with dust. He, along with tens of thousands of other cultivators, has walked from Nashik to Mumbai to fight for his rights as a farmer</p></div>", "album_description": "<p class=\"p1\"><i>In Nashik on March 6, they were at least 20,000. By the time the farmers reached Azad Maidan in south Mumbai on March 12, they were 40,000. Tired but triumphant, exhausted but unyielding</i></p>", "url": "/pa/albums/from-fields-of-despair---a-march-with-hope/", "slide_photographer": ["Binaifer Bharucha"], "image_captured_date": "15 Mar,2018", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/06-_MG_0281.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "From fields of despair \u2013 a march with hope", "src": "/media/original_images/07-_MG_0327.JPG", "src_resized": "/media/images/07-_MG_0327.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p class=\"p1\">The Kisan Sabha flag wrapped around a bamboo pole. A farmer wraps his hands around the pole for support as he listens to speeches at Azad Maidan</p></div>", "album_description": "<p class=\"p1\"><i>In Nashik on March 6, they were at least 20,000. By the time the farmers reached Azad Maidan in south Mumbai on March 12, they were 40,000. Tired but triumphant, exhausted but unyielding</i></p>", "url": "/pa/albums/from-fields-of-despair---a-march-with-hope/", "slide_photographer": ["Binaifer Bharucha"], "image_captured_date": "15 Mar,2018", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/07-_MG_0327.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "From fields of despair \u2013 a march with hope", "src": "/media/original_images/08-_MG_0378.JPG", "src_resized": "/media/images/08-_MG_0378.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p class=\"p1\">A massive <i>pandal</i> was created at the\u00a0<i>maidan</i> to provide a sheltered space to sit and listen to the speeches. Many were waving\u00a0 flags and placards and shouting slogans</p></div>", "album_description": "<p class=\"p1\"><i>In Nashik on March 6, they were at least 20,000. By the time the farmers reached Azad Maidan in south Mumbai on March 12, they were 40,000. Tired but triumphant, exhausted but unyielding</i></p>", "url": "/pa/albums/from-fields-of-despair---a-march-with-hope/", "slide_photographer": ["Binaifer Bharucha"], "image_captured_date": "15 Mar,2018", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/08-_MG_0378.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "From fields of despair \u2013 a march with hope", "src": "/media/original_images/09-_MG_0382.JPG", "src_resized": "/media/images/09-_MG_0382.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p class=\"p1\">A group of young women with placards, wearing the same colours as the flag. The emblem on the flag was also on their saree borders</p></div>", "album_description": "<p class=\"p1\"><i>In Nashik on March 6, they were at least 20,000. By the time the farmers reached Azad Maidan in south Mumbai on March 12, they were 40,000. Tired but triumphant, exhausted but unyielding</i></p>", "url": "/pa/albums/from-fields-of-despair---a-march-with-hope/", "slide_photographer": ["Binaifer Bharucha"], "image_captured_date": "15 Mar,2018", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/09-_MG_0382.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "From fields of despair \u2013 a march with hope", "src": "/media/original_images/10-_MG_0421.JPG", "src_resized": "/media/images/10-_MG_0421.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p class=\"p1\">Ujjwala Vasant Waghmare with a flag, along with Ratna Ashok Jadhav in a colourful saree, and\u00a0 Kalabai Bhagwan Sonawane with a shawl wrapped around her head. The woman furthest in the photograph is Lakshmibai Ramdas Gangude. All of them are from\u00a0Rajderwadi\u00a0village in Nashik district\u2019s\u00a0Chandvad\u00a0<i>taluka.</i> They were demanding electricity, ration cards, pension for their elders and land in their name. They were sitting at the <i>maidan</i>, talking, resting, listening to the speeches, their luggage arranged around them</p></div>", "album_description": "<p class=\"p1\"><i>In Nashik on March 6, they were at least 20,000. By the time the farmers reached Azad Maidan in south Mumbai on March 12, they were 40,000. Tired but triumphant, exhausted but unyielding</i></p>", "url": "/pa/albums/from-fields-of-despair---a-march-with-hope/", "slide_photographer": ["Binaifer Bharucha"], "image_captured_date": "15 Mar,2018", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/10-_MG_0421.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "From fields of despair \u2013 a march with hope", "src": "/media/original_images/11-_MG_0438.JPG", "src_resized": "/media/images/11-_MG_0438.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p class=\"p1\">Farmers at the <i>maidan,</i> where work on the metro rail is underway; a crane from the project site is in the background, not far from the\u00a0 municipal corporation building. While a part of Mumbai surges ahead, flush with funds and infrastructure projects, farmers in the countryside are desperately seeking support from the government, asking for what is rightfully theirs</p></div>", "album_description": "<p class=\"p1\"><i>In Nashik on March 6, they were at least 20,000. By the time the farmers reached Azad Maidan in south Mumbai on March 12, they were 40,000. Tired but triumphant, exhausted but unyielding</i></p>", "url": "/pa/albums/from-fields-of-despair---a-march-with-hope/", "slide_photographer": ["Binaifer Bharucha"], "image_captured_date": "15 Mar,2018", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/11-_MG_0438.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "From fields of despair \u2013 a march with hope", "src": "/media/original_images/12-_MG_0376.JPG", "src_resized": "/media/images/12-_MG_0376.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p class=\"p1\">Farmers sitting in rapt attention under the massive tent-like structure, listening to speeches</p></div>", "album_description": "<p class=\"p1\"><i>In Nashik on March 6, they were at least 20,000. By the time the farmers reached Azad Maidan in south Mumbai on March 12, they were 40,000. Tired but triumphant, exhausted but unyielding</i></p>", "url": "/pa/albums/from-fields-of-despair---a-march-with-hope/", "slide_photographer": ["Binaifer Bharucha"], "image_captured_date": "15 Mar,2018", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/12-_MG_0376.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "From fields of despair \u2013 a march with hope", "src": "/media/original_images/13-_MG_0454.JPG", "src_resized": "/media/images/13-_MG_0454.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>A farmer takes a selfie, before he leaves to return to Nashik, to commemorate this historic day.</p></div>", "album_description": "<p class=\"p1\"><i>In Nashik on March 6, they were at least 20,000. By the time the farmers reached Azad Maidan in south Mumbai on March 12, they were 40,000. Tired but triumphant, exhausted but unyielding</i></p>", "url": "/pa/albums/from-fields-of-despair---a-march-with-hope/", "slide_photographer": ["Binaifer Bharucha"], "image_captured_date": "15 Mar,2018", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/13-_MG_0454.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "From fields of despair \u2013 a march with hope", "src": "/media/original_images/14-_MG_0404.JPG", "src_resized": "/media/images/14-_MG_0404.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p class=\"p1\">A farmer shares a bench with his compatriots, his bright pink shirt\u00a0 speckled with stars</p></div>", "album_description": "<p class=\"p1\"><i>In Nashik on March 6, they were at least 20,000. By the time the farmers reached Azad Maidan in south Mumbai on March 12, they were 40,000. 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