born at home

Why won’t the Government recognise India’s one million traditional birth practitioners?

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Children of the Pyre

A terrible saga of exploitation that celebrates the victory of innocence over the most harrowing realities of life.

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footwear

The Catholic Arundhatiyars of Dharmanathapuram, traditional shoemakers, grow increasingly assailed between caste discrimination and competition from the shoe manufacturing industry.

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from dust

An untold story about a “100 meter rule” after the Tsunami.

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goddesses

Notes from the lives of three extraordinary women: a graveyard worker, a funeral singer, a fisher woman.

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little republics

The control and misuse of power undermine the affirmative action of reservations, revealed through the experiences of low caste women panchayat candidates in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh.

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notes from the crematorium

The world of undertakers, a community that is only remembered in the event of death.

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shit

A day in the life of Mariammal, a woman sanitary worker, who cleans the shit from a lane in Madurai.

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the die is caste

An appraisal of three decades of the Naxalite movement in Bihar – has any benefit accrued to the Scheduled Castes or, are they mere pawns on the political chessboard?

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vandhe mataram

Rehman’s new version of Vande Mataram is an icon for India’s modern and globalised image, but realities are uncomfortable.

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voices

Three hyper marginalised communities among Dalits in UP give voice to the oppression and marginalisation they have been subjected to for centuries.

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