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A village speaks in circles and lines.

Community roots, careful looking and the lives behind a familiar form.

Maharashtra

First passage

I begin Maharashtra with warli. It is a place to start looking at the labour, landscape, memory and changing present that gather around a single thread. A real portrait needs many voices and many return visits. This first passage simply leaves the door open.

This is a first doorway, not a total account of a place. As the archive grows, I will shape these stories with local knowledge, review and full credit to the people in them.

Four ways to meet a place.

01

Food

Misal, bhakri and coastal kitchens make for a generous table.

02

Festival

Ganesh Chaturthi is intimate at home and immense in public, with many ways of taking part.

03

Flora & fauna

Mangroves, flamingos and the Sahyadris show a wildness close to the city.

04

Fashion & craft

Paithani silk and Warli work hold very different visual worlds.

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