Udit Pratap Immanuel Khosla and Alhibha Prativa Khosla were working as teachers in a missionary school in Girkanpalli, a small remote village even today. This village is located in the Kalimela block of the Malkangiri District in Odisha. They waited ... Read More

Prabhakaran was born in Kodungalloor in the Thrissur District of Kerala. He is the fifth and youngest son.His father, who was working in the Army, passed away when Prabhakaran was in his teenage years. When he turned 18, taking his ... Read More

We are all familiar with Kadukumanna, the hamlet where Madhu and his family were staying. (They were staying in Chidankki hamlet when he was murdered.)Recently, we heard in the news that a pregnant woman was carried on the shoulders of ... Read More

Kanyama was once part of Melle Mulli, a hamlets that lies close to the Tamil Nadu border. This hamlet was scattered in different areas several years ago, just like any other hamlets in Attapadi. But most of the families left ... Read More

It was a difficult moment for him when he decided to change his name. He needed a name that would reflect the ideology he believed in, as well as maintain a connection to his past. So, he chose the name ... Read More

A 23 years old person committed suicide on 12 of Jan 2023. He was a resident of Bodichala hamlet. His ancestors were from Vannadhara hamlet, thus burial was there.The died person was a usual annual visitor to Karamadai Temple in ... Read More

In 2022, Eswaran's cultivation was successful. He was able to sell tapioca at a reasonable price. He leased a new piece of land for this year's crop. However, there would be a shortage of water for irrigation in March and ... Read More

In the photograph, Sudheesh, a 24-year-old is a resident of Aanavaya, a hamlet located within the Silent Valley National Park. Sudheesh is a sportsman from the Kurumba tribe who has been forced to halt his athletic pursuits due to financial ... Read More

In the third month of her pregnancy Vanitha  and her husband Prabhakaran tested HIV positive. Vanitha did not want to abort. She gave birth to Suprabha. Later, she gave birth to four more children- three daughters and a son.Prabhakaran belongs ... Read More

When you imagine your future, do you see a family life? “Of course, I do. Like any other woman, I too dream of a family life with a suitable man. But for transgenders, the chances for an arranged marriage are ... Read More

I was seven years old when my mother died. Soon, my father also abandoned me. I was raised by myuncles. They were never nice to me. I was not good at studies. So my uncles sent me to a neighbouring ... Read More

When I was three years old, my father stabbed my mother, Vilasini, sixteen times. She ran away,abandoning her three children. She did not return even when her eldest daughter died. I was five years old then. I don’t remember my ... Read More

Usually, elephants present their right hind leg for their mahouts to climb up and down. But theywould do so only after the mahouts have spent enough time with them to establish a reasonable degree of control.Shihad (42) and Hamid (63), ... Read More

It's a love story 😊Our protagonist, Vivek (from the couple seen in the left), is from Ambodala, a village which is around 92 Kms from Rayagada. Anticipating a better and practical future, in his mid-teen years, Vivek left his village ... Read More

It is difficult to tell if Shambhu is drunk or not. A jovial man in his early forties, he always walks and talks like a drunkard who cares little for the reality of the world around him. People think he ... Read More

Paulose was born in 1932 into the Tharayani family, one of the six Orthodox Christian families that had come from Puthuveli to Mulappuram im the 1920’s, during the first wave of migration from the plains and lowlands of Central Travancore ... Read More

I don’t have good memories. I had a troubled childhood. I am the youngest of my parents’ four children. I was three years old when my mother, Annamma, died. My father, Augustine, soon married another woman, and then went further ... Read More

Kuttan was born in 1969. His mother passed away when he was six. He does not know where his father went after his mother died.Kuttan went to a christian missionary boarding school in Thiruvalla. He studied up to ten standard ... Read More

“We always had water scarcity in our colony. When you don’t have water where you live, it messes your head up. After a long struggle, we somehow managed to arrange a pipe connection from the nearby hill. One day, I ... Read More

“I was born in a poor family. I stopped schooling when I was in fifth standard. Then I worked as an areca plam tree climber for five years. By the time I was fifteen, I was tall, strong and muscular. ... Read More