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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 20 January 2017 English
Bahurupi artists in West Bengal easily metamorphose into different characters during a performance, but are finding it hard to change their work roles with changing times
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 16 January 2017 English
A suspended mud vessel in the home of a family of pastoralists in Tamil Nadu’s Erode district has a most curious function – and hardly a traditional one
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 11 January 2017 English
For village women in the Sundarbans, collecting tiger prawn seedlings is unrewarding and unsavoury work – though the delicacy fetches high prices for others later along the supply chain
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 6 January 2017 English
Hasan Ali is one of 2.4 million people who live on impermanent ‘chars’ or sandbars on the Brahmaputra – without basic necessities, frequently shifting home, their lives dictated by the …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 4 January 2017 English
Farmers in Maharashtra’s Nashik district – where one in every four tomatoes in India comes from – are destroying standing crops on a scale never seen before, following persistent rock-bottom …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 30 December 2016 English
The Malabar hookahs, once a thriving trade and export item from Koyilandy to West Asia, are now difficult to find anywhere
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 22 December 2016 English
Srilal Sahani is a fish-seller by day and an extraordinary musician by evening – he rides hands-off on a bicycle while playing a dhol and cymbals behind him – in …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 17 December 2016 English
Post demonetisation, most of the major beedi units have shut down in Jangipur, West Bengal, crippled by the cash shortage – leaving thousands of home-based beedi-rollers, mostly women, with no …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 16 December 2016 English
The songs and dance by the Santal, Munda, Oraon and Ho preserve their languages and bring in an income
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 16 December 2016 English
It takes months of hard work to find water in Sivagangai, Tamil Nadu. Meet the people who dig wells for a living