India is in a churn. As a fast developing economy, we are producing millionaires everyday! Yet the underbelly of this same India is a story of deprivation, hunger, ill-health and want. As a student of my society's 'agony and ecstasy' i am trying to showcase the multifaceted pangs of development to help the underprivileged, which sadly often tends to be swept under the carpet of 'progress'.
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India: The Invisible Farmer
By Zishaan Akbar Latif
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 18 January 2010
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There is no respect economically or socially for farmers in India, they struggle to survive with dwindling finances dolled out by local governmental agencies at its disposal for grass root level farmers across the drought prone areas of Rajasthan, Bihar, Chattisgarh and the green belts of Punjab. While 64% of India is an agricultural based [...]

India: Struggle, A Profession
By Zishaan Akbar Latif
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 30 August 2009
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A man operates an ancient manual handloom in his makeshift house/warehouse where he produces raw cloth for further use that is transported to bigger cities from his village in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India. These men are paid a mere 2$s a day for being cheap daily wage labourers with which they are forced to feed [...]