Knowing Your Onions in Murshidabad
‘Knowing Your Onions In Murshidabad’ (2024) by Smita Khator for ‘People's Archive of Rural India’ (PARI)
West Bengal
After My Garden Grows
‘After My Garden Grows’ (2014) is a 9-minute Bengali-language documentary by Landesa based on the Girls Project in partnership with the government of West Bengal, and produced by Principe Productions.
What Are Seeds, When Not Sold?
Oishika Roy explores experiences of seed savers and scientists to gather proof of relationships between people and seeds beyond that of money: generational, and through the principle of commons.
Gariahat Bajaar’s Shaak Maashis Can Always Predict My Dinner Menu
Golden pumpkin flowers, red roselles, magenta eggplants, and various shades of green everywhere you look. At Kolkata’s Gariahat Bajaar, shaak maashis bring a variety of winter greens foraged from the outskirts of the cit…
“There is no first aid, or protective gear to stave off such injuries. There are no toilets, no shade”
—Jamuna Khatuwa, a coastal fishworker in Bakkhali, West Bengal