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    <description><![CDATA[I first visited Mahan forest in March 2013 to document the ongoing protests of indigenous people against acquisition of forest land for coal mining. Once there, I felt a need for a longer engagement with people and started working with local organisation in order to understand relationship these indigenous communities share with their forests. In last two years, I extensively interacted and interviewed these communities and their individual members and got to know about the deep seated corruption, exploitation and insidious administrative policies that threaten the livelihood of people in at least 54 villages surrounding the forest.The Portraits, I made in Mahan, document the dignity of a way of life and celebrate the legacy of individual, who sustains that environment and culture. By capturing these Individuals members at this critical time when the people of Mahan are facing significant social and economic changes, these portraits, chronicle the changing face of these communities. Their struggle is not just for basic rights but also to an attempt to assert their identity and gain respect and acknowledgement for it, to preserve a forest that defines who they are and where they belong.<br />
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Photo documentary by Vinit Gupta. <br />
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      <title>Vikarm  Singh Kherwar,</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2015 19:17:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Vikram Singh Kherwar, Bhudher , Singrauli]]></description>
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      <title>A Tribal  Women</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2015 19:16:17 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Mahan forest is  a life-support for me and my family . Every year, we earns around twenty to thirty thousand rupees by  selling forest produce such as Tendu leafs, Mahua, Dori. From getting dry wood for cooking, to grazing his cattle, the forest supports all my life’s needs. if our forest gets destroyed, our whole life will fall apart]]></description>
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      <title>A Baiga Boy</title>
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      <title>Forest  is our Mother</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2015 19:12:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The forest is our mother. We cannot live without it. Our livelihood, our water, our air is all linked to this forest.”]]></description>
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      <title>A Tribal  Women</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2015 19:10:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Why is it that we need to fight amongst ourselves in order to occupy different lands and assert power over people? Everything belongs to the earth. We forest dwellers are educated in our <br />
way of living, just like the city dwellers know how to exist there. We can’t give up our rights just because someone else believes our land belongs to them. The fight must continue, our future<br />
generations must not perish at the hands of those believe otherwise!”]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[We will do whatever it takes to save our forests. We cannot allow forest to be cut down. It is our home,"]]></description>
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      <title>Tribal Man</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2015 19:05:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Mining will not only destroy our homes but will also make basic amenities like water scarce. The electricity produced at the thermal power plants will go to big cities and we will be left in darkness.]]></description>
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      <title>Ram lala Singh</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2015 19:02:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Kherwar Women</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2015 19:00:17 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Kherwar Women collecting Mahau, Village Bhudher, Sin grauli]]></description>
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      <title>Sisters</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2015 18:58:38 GMT</pubDate>
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