Sohrab Hura The unorganized labour market in the morning in Ranchi. The women in the photos had migrated to the city from nearby villages in search of employment and would wait every morning for contractors wh (...)
o could provide a job opening for the day. Jharkand, India. 2005. © Sohrab Hura | Magnum Photos
Sohrab Hura On January 2, 2006 the police opened fire on unarmed people including women and children who were protesting against the inauguration of a newly built boundary wall around a piece of disputed land (...)
by an Indian steel major. 12 tribals were killed and several seriously injured. Orissa, India. 2006. © Sohrab Hura | Magnum Photos
Sohrab Hura In the summer of 2006, a Rozgar Adhikar Pad Yatra (journey on foot) was carried out in Dungarpur district of Rajasthan where activists from all over India and other nations as well as the local res (...)
idents of this district got together to walk across over 200 panchayats (clusters of villages) over a period of 10 days to monitor and have a social audit on the newly opened NREGA worksites. Rajasthan, India. 2006. © Sohrab Hura | Magnum Photos
Sohrab Hura A young girl in Pati block in Badwani district in the state of Madhya Pradesh looking after her baby brother while her parents are out to look for work in a nearby hamlet. Most households are extre (...)
mely large. Parents sometimes go to near by hamlets to look for employment while some of the children go to work at the worksites and others stay back to look after the household and their siblings. Madhya Pradesh, India. 2006. © Sohrab Hura | Magnum Photos
Sohrab Hura INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. Till the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was implemented in 2005, the average number of days of employment per household per year was only 7 days in Pati Block (...)
in Badwani district of Madhya Pradesh. There is hardly any vegetation here and women have to bring drinking water for over 3-4 kilometres in some of the villages. © Sohrab Hura | Magnum Photos