Photo Essay

Images of the two Punjabs, partitioned yet forever alike

A photographer’s journey through the Punjab in India and Pakistan shows a land and a people still tied together, despite Partition and the militarised border in between

| Sep 15, 2023

A Rohingya photographer’s dispatch on food-aid cuts in the refugee camps

The reduction in World Food Program rations for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, is exacerbating their immense suffering. Food insecurity and malnutrition, already acute, are worsening.

| Apr 28, 2023

The artisans of Tambat Ali

A community of coppersmiths in Pune keeps an endangered craft alive.

The shifting Sundarban

Human-animal conflict in the Sundarban is being exacerbated by the climate crisis.

The twilight home

Art of the everyday on Divar Island.

| Jan 18, 2022

The line that blinds

Scenes from the Bangladesh-India borderlands.

| Dec 14, 2021

Celluloid ephemera

Preserving film in transition.

| May 12, 2021

Kashmiri shawl wallahs of Guwahati

A Guwahati midwinter in hope and warmth.

| Feb 12, 2021

Silent squares

Kathmandu’s streets lie empty as Nepal goes into lockdown.

| Apr 07, 2020

Stranded in Geneva Camp

Life in the largest refugee camp for Bangladesh’s Urdu-speaking community.

| Jun 27, 2019

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