by Abhishek Shah | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio
Mumbai has 72 miles of coastline, some of it covered in mangroves and some of it sandy or rocky — but none of it is clean. There isn’t a beach culture here. It’s not a place for gathering and tanning — more often it’s a...
by Abhishek Shah | Sep 21, 2020 | Essays & Commentaries, Portfolio
For the second year in a row, India has landed the dubious distinction of being number one in the world for deaths from tuberculosis: 423,000 TB patients died in the year 2016. That’s a third of the world’s 1.4 million death toll. India, of course, is not...
by Abhishek Shah | Sep 21, 2020 | Essays & Commentaries, Portfolio
For five mornings each week, the elderly women who visit the Rangoli Women’s Center say they feel like they belong somewhere. This is an unusual feeling for many of them. In most of India, older women are practically invisible. In large families, they take on...
by Abhishek Shah | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio
For two years, every weekend a group of volunteers converges on Versova beach, on the north shore of Mumbai, to collect the rubbish – by hand! The team has already collected over 7000 tonnes of waste – and it all started with one man. A lawyer who looked...
by Abhishek Shah | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio
India has a coastline of more than 7,000 kilometers, but sadly, it’s not all pristine beaches and stunning cliffs. In fact, for Mumbai’s citizens, the shore is more like a landfill. The beaches are covered with trash — colourful plastic bags, bottles...