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Maharashtra

The Self in the Selfie

Sreedeep

Living dangerously inside a camera

The Lost Mothers of Yavatmal

In a border district of Maharashtra, a large number of women are stigmatised for being abandoned by men after pregnancy

A Bittersweet Nightmare

Contrary to popular belief, diabetes is no longer restricted to the affluent anymore. Some of the worst affected are those who have migrated from an active rural lifestyle to an urban sedentary job

On the Kumbh Waterfront

Holy dip or drinking water—it should be easy for a government to choose

Shani Shingnapur: It Takes a Village to Raise a Legend

The truth about Shani Shingnapur, the village without doors and locks

The Meat Is Not On

Mumbai’s temporary ban on meat to humour one community sets a poor precedent

Mumbai’s Hooch Tragedy

Hooch was being sold in connivance with local cops and excise officials for some 30 years in the slums of Malwani, where the tragedy occurred

Scorched Life

Haima Deshpande visits the suicide-hit districts of the Vidarbha region in Maharashtra to find lives maimed by debt, disease and poverty

Go Rural

From bullock rides to folk dances, a village experience that farmers in Maharashtra are offering can be an enduring memory

THE WATER WIVES

In a drought-stricken village near Mumbai, men marry a second—sometimes even a third—woman whose only role is to fetch water for the family

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