This book is a photographic history of modern India-political, social and cultural. Equally, it is about timeless India. Had this to be done in words, it would have been an impossible enterprise. Photographs tell a story more eloquently and effectively than learned articles, books on contemporary history or novels. But putting together such a collection could not have been easy. Selecting the images that add up to a visual history of modern India is in itself a ...
Every year millions of impoverished families living in the rainfed parts of India leave their homes in search of work. Forced to migrate due to a livelihoods collapse in the villages, these distress seasonal migrants shut up their Spartan homes, take a few meagre belongings and move, often across long distances. The large numbers of children who accompany their parents are forced to drop out of school, and in most instances, do not find schooling in the areas ...