Face is a valuable asset for every human being as one’s identity is marked by the face only. When it is being attacked in some way, it affects us not just physically, but mentally and emotionally too. When it gets disfigured it disfigures the souls too. This ongoing project The Fighting Souls is the Story of Acid Attack Survivors and their survival to fight against this heinous crime. Sheroes Hangout, a unique cafe launched in the city of Taj Mahal, Agra (UP, India) few months ago, is managed by five acid attack survivors namely Ritu, Neetu, Rupa, Geeta Mahor and Geeta Lodhi. The initiative of “Sheroes Hangout” is a joint venture of a campaign named Stop Acid Attack and an NGO named Channv Foundation. All these acid attack fighters belongs to different parts of the country and are working together to make this place a success so that this motivates and encourages many other victims of this crime and they come together to fight for their own self. A project and a campaign in order to bring forth the struggles, hardships and success of these Fighters.

Yamuna River, the second largest tributary of the Ganges remains deeply intertwined with the lives of millions of people spread across the states of Uttarakhand, Delhi, and Uttar Pradesh. One of the most prominent rivers to flow through India, Yamuna originates in the Yamunotri Glaciers, far removed from any human settlement at a dizzying height of approximately 6400 meters near Bandarpunch peaks in the lower reaches of the Himalayas in the state of Uttarakhand. Before it merges with the Ganges in Allahabad (Prayagraj), Yamuna travels a massive length of 1376 kilometers. According to an estimate more than 60 million people in India rely on the Yamuna for freshwater daily. This project intends to document the current status of the river from the Himalayas until its merges with the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh

I had grown up listening to RDP broadcast on All India Radio and watched Republic Day parade on Doordarshan, but after I shifted to New Delhi, I made every effort to watch it live. My involvement started long before the main event. I turned up to catch the rehearsals on Rajpath which start in December culminating in a full dress rehearsal two days before the main event. I would shoot for a couple of hours, from 5 am to 7 am, and then head to office in the cold winter morning when it was still dark. The thing I noticed, though the RPD is primarily a visual spectacle, music plays an important role in the event. I was specially struck by the military bands, who serve the key role of not only raising the troop morale and instill patriotic fervour in the audience, but also provide rthymic beat which help maintain synchronity during the march.

It’s been 1140 days since I spoke to him and now understand why people realize the importance of a person after they are gone forever. Since childhood, I never had a warm relationship with my father however everything changed after 10th of December 2017. Someone requested my father to accompany him to somewhere on his motorbike. Papa always preferred bicycle over bikes but that was an unfortunate day, he agreed to his friend and we lost him forever in a road accident. After his demise, for a few months, I went in silos of my own and recollected that entire he has done for me which I never realized when he was alive. So, in his memory and through this archival photo of his I am trying to mend that relationship with him. I wrote a poem in our mother tongue which has been imposed manually on these photographs (size A3) that say that “Why did you left so sudden and not even given me a single chance to even express all my feelings for you.”  So in the words of Adrienne C. Moore - “The loss of my father will always sting. But now, everything that I do is in honour of him and celebrates his life.”

In the Indian subcontinent, the potter community is known as Kumhar or Kumbhar, derived from the term Kumharkar, literally, maker of kumbha (earthen pot). The kumbha is believed to have emerged from the cosmic ocean during the Samudra Manthan (Churning of the Ocean), a mythological episode that finds mention in the Bhagavatha Purana as a tug-of-war between the devas (gods) and asuras (demons) for gaining possession of amrita (nectar of immortality). Interestingly, the Kumhars identify themselves as Prajapati, after the God Prajapati (alternately Brahma), who is believed to be the creator of the universe in Vedic Hinduism. This photo project has been done as part of Sahapedia Frames Grant and covers the socioeconomic life,culture, legacy and future of Potters that resides in the heart of capital city for decades.