Photo Essays
Circus!
The animals are banned and the thrill is gone, but the people remain extraordinary. Chitvan Gill’s photographs aim to evoke memories of childhood joy
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Us and Them
Distance offers perspective. Johnny Miller uses drone photography to depict the unacceptable inequalities of urban life across the world
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Imagined Homeland
The Lisu tribe of Arunachal Pradesh are refugees in their own land. Sharbendu De documents their lives, marked by incredible hardship and amazing grace
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The Waste Land
The structures of one of imperia’s grandest industries—Bengal’s jute mills and manors— now lie abandoned. But the site remains grand in its splendid desolation, finds Sreedeep
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I’ll Be Looking at the Moon
Ways of seeing one’s lover, the desire and heartache of looking for the elusive other. Images from a photobook by Harikrishna Katragadda
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Stages of Desire
At Bihar’s Sonepur Mela, thousands of villagers trade in cattle, and scores of urban “nautch girls” peddle desire. Udit Kulshrestha documents the negotiations
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Love in Bombay
With few public spaces—and considerable public reproachfulness—Bombay is an unlikely haven for lovers. Anurag Banerjee shares some city secrets
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Nomad’s Land
The ground beneath their feet is shifting—literally and metaphorically. Sankar Sridhar documents the changing lives of the Bakarwal community of Kashmir
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The Palaces of Memory
An iconic café in Delhi seems emblematic of an idea that appears to be fading. But for photographer Stuart Freedman the coffee house as an institution remains relevant even in unsentimental new India
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The Way We Are
Footnotes to a career in photojournalism. Prashant Panjiar captures the everyday and the unusual in an incidental documentation of “being Indian”
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