Stories by PARI reporters of their experiences while on the ground and reporting.
I first came to know about caterpillar fungus from newspaper reports of its seizure. There was occasional news that Uttarakhand police seized caterpillar fungus or locally called ‘keeda jadi’, valued…
Sanket Jain is a reporter with PARI. He has recently published the first two of a series of photo-sketch signature pairs that will go on to span 300 villages in…
Srimathi K. Meenakshi A tribute to the award winning Ghatam maker from Tamil Nadu by Aparna Karthikeyan It is very sad news: Shrimathi K. Meenakshi, award winning Ghatam maker, died…
“No one sends a copy of the film they make on us.” That’s Basudeb Das, Baul singer from Bolpur, speaking. I made a short documentary on Basudeb da - and sent…
Here is a share by Pu. Ko. Saravanan who translated the ten tales of freedom - these are stories and interviews of freedom fighters of India. *** I had once…
The idea was to publish one ovi, a couplet rendered as a song, everyday, from the Grindmill Songs database along with text and audio. It seemed like a simple enough…
It occupies an unassuming fifth floor apartment just off the Western Express Highway, on a leafy lane where autowalas routinely park to nap. There’s the front room with its oversized…
And a visit to Vita in Satara district, where P. Sainath received an award on August 6, instituted in the memory of Krantisinh Nana Patil The children of the Krantisinh…