It’s a hard life for the labourers who toil in the remote wastes of the north.
BY ARKO DATTO
On the northernmost frontiers of India are some of the highest mountain passes in the world. The ...
Sri Lanka’s Tamils rebuild their lives from the rubble.
BY PATTABI RAMAN
It has been an eventful journey into a country that was ruled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam until just four ...
Chhau is an art form confined to a small part of India, and the assault of modernity has made its future uncertain.
TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY SUBROTO BISWAS
The Chhau dance is a genre of martial ...
The junior artistes of Hyderabad
BY HARSHA VADLAMANI
Every day at 5 a.m., hundreds of people gather in a nondescript lane behind Annapurna Studios in Hyderabad’s Krishna Nagar. They are ...
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Three generations of a family
condemned to life on a street corner.
BY SHUCHI KAPOOR
The term megacity conjures up a vision of gleaming lights, luxury high rises and wide roads with cars ...
Dhaka, 41 years after liberation.
BY HARIKRISHNA ...
Started as shelters for livestock in drought-hit Vidarbha, these camps have become sanctuaries for man and animal alike.
TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY ARKO DATTO
Maharashtra experienced one of its ...
Traffic Inspector Shivani’s 16-hour daily grind to keep the wheels moving in Delhi
PHOTOGRAPHS BY HARIKRISHNA KATRAGADDA
TEXT BY SHWETA UPADHYAY
She’s flipping the bread on the pan for ...
The desi gay subculture in New York.
By Harikirshna Katragadda.
In 2004, I went to a party with an Indian reporter to check out the hip desi gay scene in New York, who instructed me to walk ...
He finds the world in a piece of wood. Wood is his canvas, crude tools like cutters and chippers, his paintbrush. His art is exquisite. Mahboob Ali, 62, is one Lahore’s foremost chroniclers. He ...