The soul of India lives in its villages ...

Gaon Connection | Dec 31, 2019, 13:22 IST
The soul of India lives in its villages …

Highlight of the story: Seventy per cent of India’s rural population resides in around 6.4 lakh villages. Yet, villages are not part of the mainstream public policy or academic discourse in India. Hope the year 2020 changes this. It is time to empower the village population



In 2019, I got an opportunity to visit many villages in Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, and Uttrakhand. Each and every villager I met had a story to tell -- some were sad, some were happy and some were full of hope. Here are some images from my reporting trips, wherein each and every frame narrates a story ...



























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