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Urvashi Sarkar

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Urvashi Sarkar is an independent journalist and a 2016 PARI Fellow.

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Drying fish, dwindling fortunes

Text : Nitya Rao
Photographs : M. Palani Kumar
Editor : Urvashi Sarkar

Cuddalore
March 10, 2023
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Women fish-cutters: pushed into the shadows

Nitya Rao
Editor : Urvashi Sarkar
Photographs : M. Palani Kumar

Cuddalore
Feb. 13, 2023
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In Joshimath: sinking town, sinking hopes

Shadab Farooq
Editor : Urvashi Sarkar

Joshimath
Jan. 23, 2023
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Celebrating Saga Dawa in Ladakh

Ritayan Mukherjee
Editor : Urvashi Sarkar
Photo Editor : Binaifer Bharucha

Changthang
Jan. 16, 2023
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‘I didn’t want others to know I had miscarried’

Urvashi Sarkar
Illustrations : Labani Jangi
Photographs : Ritayan Mukherjee

Gosaba
March 10, 2022
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Sundarbans: ‘Not a blade of grass grew…’

Reporter : Urvashi Sarkar
Editor : Sharmila Joshi
Series Editors : P. Sainath and Sharmila Joshi

Gosaba
Sept. 10, 2019
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Slow train, hard work, low wages, long days

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Canning
Dec. 28, 2018
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‘Our houses are vanishing. Nobody cares’

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Gangasagar, Ghoramara
July 20, 2018
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Widowed by tigers, abandoned by the state

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Gosaba
Oct. 12, 2017
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‘Maach and chaash brought us to Sundarbans’

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Krishnadaspur
April 10, 2017
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From river to plate: the journey of the Sundarbans tiger prawn

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Jogesganj
Jan. 11, 2017
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Songs of the Sundarbans

Urvashi Sarkar
Text Editor : Sharmila Joshi

Sundarbans
Dec. 16, 2016
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