Heavy Lies the Grain
The Green Revolution of the 1960s saved India from famine and hunger. In Punjab, a focus area, intensive monocropping led to depleting aquifers and illnesses.
Battling the Wave
As the second wave of the pandemic battered rural India, a few idealistic doctors and healthworkers pitched in to help isolated communities.
Dialogues with the Dead
In the highlands of Eastern India, generations of Sora shamans connected the living with the dead. The arrival of new religions, however, is leading to the loss of these traditions.
Chalo Dilli
Every year, thousands travel from across India to protest at Jantar Mantar, Delhi’s designated protest space.
Waters Close over Us
The Narmada Valley Project led to the displacement of thousands of Indigenous communities along the river Narmada in central India.
The Muria isn’t Home
Thousands of Muria Indigenous people had to migrate after being caught in the crossfire between Maoist rebels and security forces in central India.
Parched
In Marathwada in west-central India, a drought in the summer of 2016, caused severe hardships to rural populations and forced several farmers to take their own lives.
For a Handful of Stardust
The Krishna Nagar neighbourhood in Hyderabad attracts aspiring actors and technicians from across the Telugu-speaking regions of southern India.