agrarian crisis – Harsha Vadlamani https://sriharsha.in Photojournalist, Filmmaker in Delhi and Hyderabad, India Fri, 08 Aug 2025 05:02:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://sriharsha.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/favicon-200x200.png agrarian crisis – Harsha Vadlamani https://sriharsha.in 32 32 Freshwater Initiative Grant from the National Geographic Society https://sriharsha.in/freshwater-initiative-grant-from-the-national-geographic-society/ Mon, 10 Jul 2023 04:54:58 +0000 https://sriharsha.in/?p=27634 Harsha Vadlamani Photojournalist, Documentary Photographer and Filmmaker in India
Water being drawn from a tubewell at a farm in Sukhpura Maur in Barnala, Punjab, India. December 09, 2019.

I am thrilled to announce that I have received my second grant from the National Geographic Society. This grant from the Society’s Freshwater Initiative will allow me to continue working on my project documenting the impact of the Green Revolution in Punjab, India. In the coming months, I will spend a lot of time in Punjab, paying special attention to the region’s groundwater crisis and rise in cancers.

I am also deeply honoured to now join the National Geographic Explorer community, where I will have the opportunity to learn and collaborate with some of the most exceptional researchers and storytellers.

Please follow the project on my website here.

 

]]> Farming Death in Telangana // OPEN https://sriharsha.in/farming-death-in-telangana-for-open/ Sat, 15 Apr 2017 09:29:56 +0000 http://sriharsha.in/?p=16540 Harsha Vadlamani Photojournalist, Documentary Photographer and Filmmaker in India

“For as long as I can remember, mother never took a day off. Father slept all day and got drunk and beat her at night, but she would be back in the fields the next morning.”

Jagyani Sravanthi’s mother Gongalla Vijaya, a farmer, killed herself in December 2016 in Ramnagar Thanda near Jangalapally in Telangana’s Jayashankar Bhupalapally district. Telangana recorded the largest number of suicides among women farmers in 2015, according to the National Crime Records Bureau of India. Data for 2016 is still awaited.

From a recent assignment for OPEN magazine, working on an issue extremely close to my heart- India’s agrarian crisis. Please read the story by V Shoba here.

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