by Abhishek Shah | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio
Five dogs turned blue in Mumbai. That was a story that journalist Deepak Gharat broke this past week. He was following up on a story in the industrial zone of Taloja, home to about 1,000 pharmaceutical and chemical factories. Every week, there’s something going...
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 | 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...
by Abhishek Shah | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio
When Navali Nayak sowed her millet in 2007, she did it in secret. She held the seeds in a fold of cloth at the waist of her saree and dropped them intermittently into the furrows her husband, Magan, was ploughing, just a few feet ahead of her. He believed she was...
