ODISHA

It’s a venture to document the day to day life and untold realities of undeveloped remote areas and areas where an extremist movement is omnipresent, of the states that lie on central belt of India.
This project aims to document the day to day life and untold realities of some of the most of the poorest district in the country in Odisha and Chhattisgarh.

Natives of Kenthuguda village collecting ration from Thalapadiguda. Malkangiri district/2023
Woman feeding a sheep from a nipple bottle as it's mother died. The building seen in the back ground was once a party office of left extreme group, now CRPF camp. Totaguda village. Chithrakonda, Malkangiri/2023
Trinath, Vijay Panki and Dhoni with their mother Lokmi Panki working in the small piece of land they own. Mariguda village, Chitrakonda, Malkangiri/2023
Men drinking after working time. Tabalagudi, Chitrakonda, Malkangiri/2023
Once a party office of left extreme group, now a CRPF camp. Tabalagudi, Chitrakonda, Malkangiri/2023
MGRN workers. Bonguru village, Chitrakonda, Malkangiri district/2023
Kumari Kabari and Shanti Anupal. 12 Number village, Chithrakonda, Malkangiri district/2023
Anganwadi workers.
Chitangaru Village, Bordering with Andra Pradesh. @Chitrakonda, Malkangiri district/2023
Chitangaru Village, Bordering with Andra Pradesh. @Chitrakonda, Malkangiri district/2023
Wife (blue saree) preparing to go to the police station as her husband was caught while transporting marijuana from their village to town. On her left and right, their daughters. Those who sitting on the veranda are neighbours. Chitangaru village, Bordering with Andra Pradesh. Chitrakonda, Malkangiri district/2023
Limatham, a village shares borders with Anthra Pradesh. Chitrakonda, Malkangiri district/2023
Customs after marriage, Laxmanguda village, Motu, Malkangiri district/2023
Rath yathra, Kalimela, Malkangiri dist/2023
Students at rented place, Malkangiri town/2023
Malkangiri town/2023
a boy from bonda tribe, working at a street food shop in Malkangiri/2023
Malkangiri district/2023
Bandakund village, Malkangiri district/2023
Mallikeswar temple,Malkangiri/2023
Mallikeswar temple, Malkangiri/2023
a ritual that performs at the tenth day of a relative's death. Korsabada village, Onkudelli. Malkangiri/2023
a ritual that performs at the tenth day of a relative's death. Korsabada village, Onkudelli. Malkangiri/2023
Bengali children at a private tuition centre in Kalimela, Malkangiri Dist/2023
Bengali people, Kalimela, Malkangiri Dist/2023
Bondagati/2023
Puberty celebration, Kothamguda, Onkudelli, Malkangiri/2023
Andrahal,Bondagati, Malkangiri/2023
Taken from Badabel, Bondagati, Malkangiri district/2023
Taken from Badabel, Bondagati, Malkangiri district/2023
Taken from Badabel, Bondagati, Malkangiri district/2023
Taken from Badabel, Bondagati, Malkangiri district/2023
Taken from Badabel, Bondagati, Malkangiri district/2023
Taken from Badabel, Bondagati, Malkangiri district/2023
People of Bonda tribe, one of the oldest and most primitive in Indian mainland, waits on the roadside for a person from the government authority who had offered guidance for applying for an Adhar card. Taken from Bondagati, Malkangiri/ 2023
Taken from Badabel, Bondagati, Malkangiri district/2023
A school on the veranda of a house as they don't have a building for schooling. Kotedura bond, a village sharing border with Andra Pradesh. Chitrakonda, Malkangiri district/2023
An indefinite strike in front of Collectorate, in Malkangiri, demanding Patta for their lands. 2023
Bondagati, Malkangiri dist/2023
Malkangiri town/2023
Municipal election campaig, taken from Kalimela. Most of the participants are Bengalis, once settled here in Malkangiri district as part of Dandakarunya project./2022
a ritual that performs at the tenth day of a relative's death. Korsabada village, Onkudelli. Malkangiri/2023
A bonda woman. Taken from Kothamguda, Onkudelli, Malkangiri/2023
These people reached in Motu, Malkangiri district from Konta, Chattisgarh for dancing in a wedding. Malkangiri district shares borders with Chattisgarh and Andra Pradesh./2023
Bengali people, Satiguda dam site. Malkangiri/2023. Settlement/ Dandakarunya project.
Bonda tribal people brewing. Bondagati, Malkangiri/2023
Puberty celebration/2023
Natives of Kotwapathar, a hill top village, coming down to Bandakund village where road ends, to collect ration. Malkangiri district/2023
Durga, a leader of collective of transgenders in Malkangiri district. She works as a security in District hospital in Malkangiri/2022
A marriage, Girkanpalli village, Kalimela block, Malkangiri district/2023
The land, her house belongs was taken for a sand test lab & factory. Taken from Pandripani/Malkangiri/2023
Taken from Dalapathiguda, Malkangiri Dist/2022
A teacher on a holiday in a single teacher missionary school premises. Bondagati, Malkangiri dist/2023
Dumripada/ Bondagati,Malkangiri dist/2023
Bonda tribe. Bondagati, Malkangiri dist/2023
Bondagati, Malkangiri/2023
Onkudelli, Malkangiri/2023
Bondagati, Malkangiri/2023
Andrahal,Bondagati, Malkangiri/2023
MV 11 village, near airport site, Malkangiri Dist/2022
Malkangiri/2023
Taken from Chitrakonda, Malkangiri dist/2023
Taken from Chitrakonda/2023
Dudpalli village, Chitrakonda, Malkangiri dist/2022
Dudpalli village, Chitrakonda, Malkangiri dist/2022
Lichapani village, Chithrakonda, Malkangiri dist/2022
Lichapani village, Chithrakonda, Malkangiri dist/2022
Lichapani village, Chithrakonda, Malkangiri dist/2022
A church in Chitrakonda. 2023
Snakes that's been killed from a mosque in Chithrakonda
Lichapani village, Chithrakonda, Malkangiri/2023
Raaniguda village, Chithrakonda, Malkangiri dist/2023
Digital registration. Near Janba, Chitrakonda, Malkangiri/2023
A woman who reached here with family as a worker of water authority, maintaining a makeshift hut. The sthoopa that visible in the back ground is a martyrdom, built by Naxalites. Garram village, Chitrakonda, Malkangiri/2023
Waiting for ration distribution. Bungaputtu village, Chitrakonda, Malkangiri/2023
Kodikunthi village, Chitrakonda, Malkangiri/2023
Kodikunthi village, Chitrakonda, Malkangiri/2023
Bhuvaneswar/2017
@Puri beach./ 2017
Bhejaguda Market, Pandripani, Malkangiri district. 2022
Taken from the Highway side- Jeypore to Hydrabad./ 2022
Taken from the Highway side- Jeypore to Hydrabad./ 2022
Taken from the Highway side- Jeypore to Hydrabad./ 2022
Bhejaguda Saturday Market. Pandripani, Malkangiri/2022
The girl in the fore ground is Jasuda, an eight standard student who is on the verge of quitting school. Laxmi Murjya, her mother has four children- three daughters and a son. The person sitting next to them is not a family member. He sells locally brewed alcohol at Bhejaguda market in Pandripani. They are from Gotijodi village in Malkangiri district.
Bhejaguda Saturday Market. Pandripani, Malkangiri/2022
Bhejaguda Saturday Market. Pandripani, Malkangiri/2022
Adithya/ Pandripani village. 2022
Thula sisa’s daughter Purbi studies in Anganwadi. They are four siblings and Purbi is the third child. She has two elder sisters and a four month old brother. Taken from Pandripani, Malkangiri district. 2022.
Munna, a truck driver with his wife Guari. They have a son, Surendran, studying in 9th level. Taken from the Highway side- Jeypore to Hydrabad./ 2022
Pori is six years old and a student of first standard in Pandripani Govt school. Every morning she walks to Pandripani from her village Markapali with her father Somanat. He is a daily wager. He travels another 22 km, to Malkangiri, the district capital in search of work after leaving Pori at school. The school closes at 3 pm. So, Pori has to wait until her father comes, in a restaurant where one of Somanat’s relatives, Balram works. In the photograph, Pori is sleeping in the restaurant after school. The one standing at the door is Sukku, another employee of the hotel, who is from Kharagpur district, West Bengal. Taken from Pandripani, Malkangiri district.
Prabhasini Khemudu, Teacher at Pujarimunda Anganwadi.
Pujarimunda Anganwadi. Malkangiri.
Taken from Puri
Karthik is on the wheel chair and his cousins set up that into a small snack shop. They are seen in Dohumani Market which convenes every Wednesday and Friday in Sarsopal Village. The market is a around 2 kilometers from their home. Taken from Mayurbhanj District.
Taken from Konark Temple
Nangimaru. Taken from Brahmangavu village in Bangriposi in Mayurbhanj district, which is one of the least developed district in India.
Jaraikela, a village in Orissa, shares border with some area of Jharkand, where presence of Maoists is conspicuous. This is a family of Kondh tribe. In this photograph, Saraswathi was coming from ration shop. Poonam is her daughter, and on the sack, her son. Sister in law and mother in law are also present.
the man who is making the twine is Prafulla Dhol from Kosta village in Mayurbhanj district, which is one of the least developed districts in India. Prafulla Dhol and family are bengali origin.
Taken from Puri
Taken from Attiabara area, Sambalpur district.
This is Mahipani village in Rourkela district of Odisha. Mahipani lies close to Jharkhand and that areas of Jharkand is noted for Maoist presence. A diwali celebration was going on in the village, which was postponed for two weeks as some people in the village were ill. The woman who is drawing is Leelavathi and Barsa is her daughter who is following her.
Taken from Attiabara area. Sambalpur District.
Taken from Amali Pali area in Gundal Our village, Sambalpur District. One looking into camera is Sujatha and she studies in 4 th standard. The other one, wearing pants, is Sujatha's school mate, but they are not close to each other.
Lipsa studies in 4 level, Saraswathi Sisu Vidya Mandir, Amalipali Area, Sambalpur district.
Sonu Munda is giving company for his ailing friend Manoj. Due to the interference of a drunkard, further information couldn't be taken. Taken from Dadumunda Village, around 6 Kilometres from Jujumora. Sambalpur District,
Taken from Dadumunda village in Jujumora area, Sambalpur District. One time use plates made of jungle leafs are popular in almost every part of Odisha. And its an income for people who live near by Jungle.
Taken from Puri beach.
Illias Sama is a master in catapult among his gang. He has an ability for sharp pointing by catapult. He goes for a hunting for birds in paddy field in an evening. Taken from Surda village, Rourkela district.
On the lap of Ramesh Chandra Misra is Vishnu priya who resides in Narvadi area, which is a brahmin village, in Satpada in Puri district.
Ruchila Nath works in a restaurant runs by a Rajastani Brahmin. She is from Jaspur, Bhadrak district and reached Puri in searching of job after higher secondary. She wanted to be into accountancy related jobs. She is very affectionate about family, especially about her sisters.
Taken from Panasapada, A Sub-District level school festival was going on in Harihar Nodal Vidyapitha Government school.
Biren and Barun are in the main seat of cycle and who runs the cycle is their father's elder brother, Sathia lal. Taken from Burla, near Hirakund Dam.
Taken from Dadumunda village in Sambalpur District.
Taken from Dadumunda village in Sambalpur District.
Taken from Dantri village, Sambalpur districts
Taken from Mayurbhanj in Orissa, one of the most backward districts in India. Dec.2018
Taken from Konark Temple premises, Orissa. Dec 2018
Taken five kilo meters away, somewhere, from Baripada town.
"I am a survivor. My eyes saw that what no person should witness: gas chambers built by learned engineers. Children poisoned by educated physician. Infants killed by trained nurses. Women and babies shot by high school and college graduates. So, I am suspicious of education"- Dr Haim Ginott. @Chandipur beach, Balasore district
Taken from Sanaposi village in Baripada, Mayurbhanj District.
Taken from Bangriposi, Mayurbhanj district.
Taken from Chandipur beach.
These people belong to Bhumj tribe. They were celebrating Khoram festival in November, 2018. They performed rituals and dance in village in a particular home, then they walked as a procession to the near by Jungle to perform rest of the rituals where outsiders are not allowed. Taken from Harisanga village, Baripada, Mayurbhanj district.