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Portfolio - Land of a Thousand Struggles 

Sohrab Hura 

Immediately after finishing my studies in economics at the age of 23, I got an opportunity to be a part of a historic social movement with its roots in rural India. In the summer of 2005 a bus was to leave Delhi University and travel across 10 northern and central Indian states for the next 52 days. For the first time over a 180 different activist organisations had come together under the umbrella of the Right to Food movement. Anybody could get on to the bus and stay on it as long provided he or she was contributing to the movement in some way or another. My role on the bus ranged from distributing... 

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INDIA. Jharkand. 2005. Two brothers toil hard for subsistence... 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. Kaap Singh, an unemployed father...... 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. Till the National Rural Employment... 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. Young boys trying to till a piece... 

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INDIA. Jharkhand. 2006. With no other alternative sources of... 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. Bunty, a child aged 3 in Sheopur... 

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INDIA. Jharkhand. 2005. The unorganized labour market in the... 

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INDIA. Delhi. 2005. In a slum in the older part of the city where... 

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INDIA. Chhatisgarh. 2006. In a village in Sarguja district local... 

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INDIA. West Bengal. 2005. People from many villages in Purulia... 

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INDIA. Bihar. 2005. Punaram and Mupphat, the puppet, talk to... 

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INDIA. Uttar Pradesh. 2005. In Robertsganj after a Rozgar Adhikar... 

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INDIA. Jharkhand. 2006. In Palamu student volunteers went from... 

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INDIA. Bihar. 2005. In Gaya children also accompanied the adults... 

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INDIA. Jharkhand. 2006. Villagers responded to the students’... 

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INDIA. Uttar Pradesh. 2005. Students take a break from the sweltering... 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. Workers head to a newly opened MGNREGA... 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. Women break rocks in an MGNREGA... 

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INDIA. Chhatisgarsh. 2005. In Sarguja displaced tribals from... 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2005. Rilsa, an adivasi (tribal), aged... 

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INDIA. Orissa. 2006. In Kalinganagar what was earlier predominantly... 

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INDIA. Orissa. 2006. On January 2nd 2006 the police opened fire... 

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INDIA. Orissa. 2006. On January 2nd 2006 the police opened fire... 

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INDIA. Orissa. 2006. On January 2nd 2006 the police opened fire... 

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INDIA. Orissa. 2006. Ganesh Banara was one of the survivors.... 

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INDIA. Orissa. 2006. Nuagaon village in Paradeep… This region... 

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INDIA. Orissa. 2006. Villagers of Nuagaon- one of the main affected... 

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INDIA. Orissa. 2006. Villagers of Nuagaon- one of the main affected... 

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INDIA. Orissa. 2006. Villagers of Nuagaon- one of the main affected... 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. At dawn, women of a family wake... 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh 2005. Children curious about the Rozgar... 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. A wife helps her husband keep away... 

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India. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. An inside view of the sparse home... 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. A relatively well off family in... 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. A household with not so healthy... 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. Dihuria rocking her sibling to sleep.... 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. A young girl in Pati block in Badwani... 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. Migrants from the nearby districts... 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. A father takes a last look at his... 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. A woman tries to mend her make shift... 

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INDIA. West Bengal. 2005. Lack of employment and livelihood opportunities... 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2005. Migrant dalit workers and their... 

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INDIA. Jharkhand. 2005. The 'more able bodied' men get a chance... 

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INDIA. Jharkhand. 2006. Wages being paid in a village. 

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INDIA. Rajasthan. 2006. In the summer of 2006, a Rozgar Adhikar... 

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INDIA. Rajasthan. 2006. In the summer of 2006, a Rozgar Adhikar... 

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INDIA. Rajasthan. 2006. In the summer of 2006, a Rozgar Adhikar... 

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INDIA. Rajasthan. 2006. MGNREGA worksite. 

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INDIA. Rajasthan. 2006. Workers at a MGNREGA worksite stop work... 

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INDIA. Rajasthan. 2006. Tired participants of the Rozgar Adhikar... 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. An old man working at a MGNREGA... 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. Children work at a MGNREGA (Mahatma... 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. Children work at a MGNREGA (Mahatma... 

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INDIA. Rajasthan. 2006. Women workers come together in searing... 

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INDIA. Rajasthan. 2006. Workers at a MGNREGA worksite stop work... 

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INDIA. Rajasthan. 2006. Reetika Khera, an economist was amongst... 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. Women workers huddle together to... 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. Young women workers take a break... 

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INDIA. Rajasthan. 2006. A worksite in Dungarpur where workers... 
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