Quantcast
Channel: Galli Magazine
Browsing all 51 articles
Browse latest View live

Cancer Ward: Open to the Skies | Chirodeep Chaudhuri

Since Solzhenitsyn, the idea of the cancer ward has always been a sterile place, where those who have this dreaded disease are segregated from society. But in the city in which I live, there is a...

View Article



Sinners | Neeraj Mahajan

In the year 2001, around seventy million people from around the world participated in the largest religious gathering on earth, the Maha Kumbh Mela, at the holy city of Allahabad in India. I was there...

View Article

It’s Time to Tell the Truth | Balaji Maheshwar

CONTAINS DISTURBING CONTENT I dedicate this to Chitra, a fire accident survivor from many years ago. I started this project after seeing a photograph of Chitra. I wanted to meet her, share how I felt...

View Article

The Children Factory | Massimiliano Clausi

In the center of Anand, a sleepy rural town of Gujarat,  is a small clinic that is doing good business. The Akanksha Infertility Clinic , founded by Dr. Nayna Patel, showed up on the radar of...

View Article

In Search of Faith | Kainaz Amaria

As a first generation immigrant, deep within my heart there was always a flicker of curiously, a yearning to understand the country and culture my parents left behind. Their narrative was that they...

View Article


Koodankulam: A Nuclear Plant in My Backyard | Amirtharaj Stephen

I come from a village called Kavalkinaru in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu, not very far from Kanniyakumari. My father was employed at a Heavy Water Plant in Tuticorin and I spent the first 24...

View Article

Mystery in the Fields | Anna Maria Barry-Jester

The northern coast of Andhra Pradesh is so lush it is known as Uddanam, Sanskrit for “beautiful garden” or “paradise.”  And beautiful it is- gangly palm trees line dusty country roads traversing...

View Article

The Unknown Citizen | Chandan Gomes

9:15 pm, 16th December, 2012: I made a photograph of my dear friend S in a nearly empty bus. We were on our way to a colleague’s flat for a get together. Around the same time, not far from where we...

View Article


The Vidarbha Cotton Widows | Verena Hanschke, Floriana Gavriel

The Vidarbha Project is a documentation of the unsustainable practices in the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) cotton in central India, and their effects on the local community. GM cotton has...

View Article


Facing One’s Own | Sankar Sarkar

This photo story reflects the dialogue with my mother through my camera. She was trafficked from Malkangiri in Orissa while I was still a toddler to a red light area in  Sethbagan, Kolkata. She had to...

View Article

Portraits from a Land Forgotten | Vikas Vasudev

Portraits from a Land Forgotten, is a series that I photographed in and around the Indian side of Baltistan, a northern mountain province that straddles India and Pakistan. Baltistan acts more so as a...

View Article

Untitled | Sima Dubey

The heart of Indian cinema, bollywood, is attracting more and more Europeans, who crave for stardom thousands of kilometers away from home. Some are lucky to find it, some are not. A doss-house in...

View Article

Fellowship of the Ring | Uzma Mohsin

Fellowship of the Ring focuses on unusual women and an unusual sport. The women come from different backgrounds – rural, urban, middle class, lower middle class – and the sport they have chosen to...

View Article


Other People’s Clothes | Soumyadip Ghosh

Clothes make the man. But men and women who make the clothes for other people are often left behind. As of 2009, hundreds of mills in Ahmedabad have shut down, so this scene, which had been ubiquitous...

View Article

Winged Legacy of Old Delhi | Mohit Gupta

Old Delhi, the last of the seven reincarnations of Delhi subsumes most of the Mughal legacy. The legacy manifests itself not only in the architectural marvels, but also (and in a more interesting...

View Article


Jadugoda Unumo Tene | Ashish Birulee

Jadugoda, Drowning in Nuclear Greed. The Uranium Corporation of India (UCIL), a public sector enterprise, has been mining for and processing Uranium in Jadugoda, East Singhbhum district, Jharkhand...

View Article

Here is Gone | Tashi Norden Lepcha

Assam has been a witness to waves of migration for centuries resulting in a unique mixture of social and ethnic groups in the region. There have been many instances of friction between the local and...

View Article


The Vanishing Island | Pankaj Dutta

The word Majuli always brings back sweet memories of my hometown Jorhat. During the festival of Bihu or functions in the family, we always arranged for some good home made curd and milk cream from...

View Article

Winter Highways: The Wait of Baltistan | Narayan Tushar Kaudinya

On the night of 13th December 1971 Major Chewang Rinchin of the Ladakhi Scouts – with his troops, ceased fire after reaching the village Tyakshi just after acquiring five villages and a total area of...

View Article

Dotma: In a House I Can Live | Divya Agrawal

Amidst the relative peace of tall areca nut trees and vast mustard plains, constant tension burbles on the surface in Kokrajhar, Assam. Political graffiti dots house exteriors and market places. Most...

View Article
Browsing all 51 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images