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Into the precarious world of India's weavers

‘I have been going into this hell for decades’

Coimbatore
Sarubai singing

Sarubai: 5000 songs and still singing

Photographs : Binaifer Bharucha
Editor and Series Editor : Sharmila Joshi
Wadavali
Leta Paharia showing rat traps

Shut your trap!

Text Editor : Sharmila Joshi
Ghaghri
Band members of the Sargam Mahila Band

Drums and dreams beyond pickle and papad

Dhibra
Baul singing

Basudeb Baul: singing the ballads of Bengal

Text Editor : Sharmila Joshi
Bolpur
Fuyaramji stands guard while his camels are busy eating

The fable of Lek and Lakshmi

Sadri

The poet of small thingis

Majalgaon

'Let's solve the pricing problem once and for all’

Osmanabad
The old weaving skills of Banka district, Bihar, are vanishing due to low returns, poor state support and cheaper imports. Only a few families in Katoria village still weave. This film features some of them

Tussar: the crumbling cocoon

Text Editor : Sharmila Joshi
Katoria
Freedom fighters gathering

The last hurrah of the prati sarkar

Sangli, Shenoli
Headporters walking in Matheran

Heavy lifting in the hills

Text Editor : Sharmila Joshi
Matheran