A makeshift office set up by realtors in agricultural fields by the road in Venkatapalem in the Amaravati Capital Region, Andhra Pradesh. November 2014.
Thulluru, which is at the heart of the Amaravati Capital Region. December 2014.
A morning in Rayapudi. November 2014.
Fields close to the river Krishna in Rayapudi. November 2014.
Sridevi Jonnalagadda harvests maize in Uddandarayuni Palem. December 2014.
Villagers leave after a public meeting hosted by Telugu Desam Party leaders and functionaries urging people to contribute to land pooling for Amaravati in Uddandarayuni Palem. November 2014.
Mohammad Babu, a corporator from Tadepalli, debates the cost of a piece of land he is interested in with real estate advisors in Sakhamuru. November 2014.
Malavath Saraswati, 47, in the field where she was employed to sow maize. “We are paid for Rs.100 a day. The farmer refused to raise our wage by Rs.20, but made a fortune selling land.”
A giant bust of NT RamaRao, the founder of Telugu Desam Party, is taken through Mandadam. September 2016.
A farmer carries his produce to the market at Thulluru. November 2014.
Fishermen sorting their nets at Rayapudi. November 2014.
A farm set on fire by arsonists in Uddandarayuni Palem in December 2014.
Police stationed in Uddandarayuni Palem after several fields of farmers opposed to land pooling were set on fire in December 2014.
The new AP Secretariat under construction in Velagapudi. June 2016.
The new AP Secretariat under construction in Velagapudi. June 2016.
A sign at the under-construction AP Secretariat at Velagapudi. June 2016.
An EWS housing project near Mandadam. January 2019.
Propitiation rituals at a lake in Mandadam after someone killed themselves. September 2016.
Villagers engage themselves in a game of dice in Thulluru. December 2014.
Passengers disembark a ferry at Rayapudi. December 2014.
A special bus ferries visitors to the new capital coming up in Amaravati, as part of the government’s initiative to familiarise farmers across the state with the capital project. January 2019.
Guntaka Naveen Kumar Reddy, 28, ploughs over a standing onion crop in Penumaka, after failing to secure a good price for the crop. Penumaka is one of the last villages still resisting the Amavarati project. January 2019.
Realtime Governance Centre at the new Andhra Pradesh secretariat in Amaravati. January 2019.
A sign on one of the many new roads that have been laid in the Amaravati Capital Region. January 2019.
A road that could not be completed as farmers refused to part with their land in Penumaka. January 2019.
Nara Lokesh, son of the TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu, during an interaction session with students before the elections to state legislature. Lokesh, who contested from Mangalagiri constituency under which Amaravati falls, lost the election to his YSRCP rival. March 2019.