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At a disco club in Hyderabad.

The Feel Good Factory

A government-media joint venture. (Published in the issue dated March 12, 2004.)

In Guwahati on April 22, during the lockdown, a physically challenged woman and her son, accompanied by a relative, in search of a free food distribution centre.

‘We didn’t bleed him enough’

COVID-19 and the world of the new normal.

The world through a village

Melanmai Ponnusamy, one of the most authentic literary voices of the countryside, passed away on October 30. Living in his isolated village in Virudh

The slaughter of suicide data

Changing the way you count changes the count.

Desperate peoples

The vanishing world of India's tribes

A day at the races

At the carnival at Delanwadi, Vidarbha, bullock cart races are the centrepiece.

TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY P. SAINATH

A woman who is blind sits in the field as her son ploughs the field in Maanmodi village in Osmanabad district.-PAUL NORONHA

Withering lives

The agrarian crisis bankrupts whole communities and drives hundreds of farmers to suicide across Maharashtra.

The Sheonath river, a stretch of which has been leased to Radius Water Limited, in Durg district of Chhattisgarh.-AKHILESH KUMAR

Thirst for profit

The corporate hijack of water is on and if the current trend continues, India's water sources will be in private hands before long.

An undernourished boy at a rural hospital in Nandurbar district, Maharashtra.-AP

The poverty of fiction

ONE sector - among hundreds - where India has become a `Global Player' in the shining years is Modern Indian Fiction.

The spoiler in Gujarat

WHEN the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) contested around 80 seats in the Gujarat polls, its leader Sharad Pawar knew his men had little chance of ke

Stability is an 18-headed ostrich

NOW that the media has all but installed a BJP government - with only the minor hurdle of the popular vote to be dealt with - it is worth looking at s

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