The small army that built the PARI Library
In 2019, a library on the internet decided to borrow something from offline libraries. It was metaphor. Instead of menus…
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The small army that built the PARI Library
Stories by PARI reporters of their experiences while on the ground and reporting.
‘I will write about more Tulshi Bhagats…’
Jyoti Shinoli I met Tulshi Bhagat in 2017 in her hamlet, Murbichapada, when I was doing a story on displacement…
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‘I will write about more Tulshi Bhagats…’
Met up with Kamli Bahota
I saw the remarkable Com. Kamli Bahota at yesterday’s massive Kisan Parishad organised by the All India Kisan Sabha. I…
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Met up with Kamli Bahota
How I got the story on caterpillar fungus – by Arpita Chakrabarty
I first came to know about caterpillar fungus from newspaper reports of its seizure. There was occasional news that Uttarakhand…
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How I got the story on caterpillar fungus – by Arpita Chakrabarty
Sanket Jain with Suyash Kamble. 20-year-old Suyash Kamble is a Dalit poet who has written more than 400 poems on casteism, and other social issues ranging from the murder of rationalists like Gauri Lankesh to the recent Bhima-Koregaon attack. He works as an electrician during the day and attends the night college and is currently in grade 12.
An interview with Sanket Jain about his project covering 300 villages
Sanket Jain is a reporter with PARI. He has recently published the first two of a series of photo-sketch signature…
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An interview with Sanket Jain about his project covering 300 villages
A Tribute to Srimathi K. Meenakshi
Srimathi K. Meenakshi A tribute to the award winning Ghatam maker from Tamil Nadu by Aparna Karthikeyan It is very…
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A Tribute to Srimathi K. Meenakshi
Baul singer Basudeb Baul: singing the ballads of Bengal
Basudeb Baul gets his own film
“No one sends a copy of the film they make on us.” That’s Basudeb Das, Baul singer from Bolpur,…
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Basudeb Baul gets his own film
A translator for PARI shares his experience
Here is a share by Pu. Ko. Saravanan who translated the ten tales of freedom - these are stories and…
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A translator for PARI shares his experience
The grindmill songs: making music with stone and verse
The idea was to publish one ovi, a couplet rendered as a song, everyday, from the Grindmill Songs database along…
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The grindmill songs: making music with stone and verse
Welcome to the PARIvar: Reflections from a newcomer to the People’s Archive of Rural India
It occupies an unassuming fifth floor apartment just off the Western Express Highway, on a leafy lane where autowalas routinely…
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Welcome to the PARIvar: Reflections from a newcomer to the People’s Archive of Rural India