India | by Kiran Kreer https://imkiran.com/stories/india/ Sat, 02 May 2026 05:05:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://imkiran.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/cropped-kirankreerlogo-favicon-32x32.png India | by Kiran Kreer https://imkiran.com/stories/india/ 32 32 When Children Work In Train Stations, India https://imkiran.com/when-children-work-in-train-stations-india/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:22:25 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=5153 In India’s railway stations, thousands of children work daily to support their families. This story documents their lives, resilience, and the reality of child labour in urban spaces. When children work, they find a purpose in life to earn a little for their families. When they change themselves within cultures to be who they are […]

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]]> Ganga Aarti Puja in Rishikesh, India https://imkiran.com/ganga-aarti-puja-rishikesh-india/ Fri, 13 Jan 2017 12:50:22 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=6282 I walk down the steps, heading to a prayer, Aarti Puja, as I’m looking up at the blue skies, I felt the energy and waves of the singing changing the essence of nature itself, with the sun reaching down to the horizon. Leaving my shoes at the doorstep of the ashram build along the Ganga […]

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]]> The Wanderer of Rishikesh, India https://imkiran.com/the-wanderer-of-rishikesh-india/ Mon, 02 Jan 2017 11:56:33 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=6255 I walked passed her everyday, noticing her sitting there on her own, with a steel cup on her side, her tiny body covered with a blanket. Hiding from the cold. Eyes looking down at all those passing by, just hearing the footsteps and sounds of dropping coins. At times she would sit facing the wall, […]

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]]> Paniya The Slave Tribe Of Wayanad, India https://imkiran.com/paniya-the-slave-tribe-of-wayanad/ Fri, 09 Sep 2016 13:45:33 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=6075 When I heard about the Paniya slave tribes in Wayanad, I started researching more about their location, heritage and history. To my surprise, I found that they have been around long before the locals starting living among them, mainly in the mountains. The main ethnic group was the Paniya tribes, also the Kurumar and Adiyars. […]

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]]> Ooty Ruined By Tourism and Development, India https://imkiran.com/ooty-ruined-by-tourism-and-development-india/ Sun, 17 Jul 2016 06:53:02 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=5772 A few days ago I made my way up to Ooty, a city in the mountains, with hopes of seeing the beautiful nature and cultures of locals living among tea plantations, the clouds, the cold and amazing sceneries. It was a ride that I will always remember, as somehow it got me closer to fellow […]

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]]> Follow The Flower Trail In Bangalore, India https://imkiran.com/follow-flower-trail-bangalore-india/ Sun, 03 Jul 2016 09:08:25 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=5703 K R Market (Krishna Rajendra Market) also known as City Market, is the largest wholesale market established in 1928, about 88 years ago in Bangalore. Started off as a small red and white building, crowded with locals, farmers and buyers, today it’s much bigger. I took a ride to one of the oldest and largest […]

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]]> Gypsy Tales of Rajasthan https://imkiran.com/gypsy-tales-of-rajasthan/ Sat, 12 Mar 2016 03:52:01 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=5260 An elder gypsy telling me tales of his life and how hard it has become today to live as a camel herder. He has been traveling back here to the Pushkar camel fair for almost 40 years at times for weeks on foot just to look for some income to survive. “We live from day […]

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]]> Free Life Of A Gypsy Women, Rajasthan, India https://imkiran.com/free-life-of-a-gypsy-women/ Tue, 01 Mar 2016 16:59:41 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=5256 During my visit to Pushkar for the annual camel fair, I had a chance to meet the gypsies, the Kalbeliya and Banjara people living close to the city deserts. The gypsies have been living here for almost 30 years now, nomads of their own kind, with tents set up along the dusty streets of Rajasthan. […]

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]]> The Outcast Gypsy Child, Chennai, India https://imkiran.com/the-outcast-gypsy-child/ Fri, 05 Feb 2016 11:16:05 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=5223 A child awaits her turn to fill in a bucket of water in a gypsy slum of Chennai. Water that comes from the ground, polluted by the scums of society and industrialization. Living around garbage and deceases. Gypsies today are openly being discriminated in many parts of India as a lower cast of humans. You […]

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]]> Losing My Husband at 18, Single Mother | Chennai https://imkiran.com/losing-my-husband-at-18-single-mother/ Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:20:56 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=5186 I met her during my trip with an NGO here, working to help single mothers in the slums of Chennai. She is also a survivor of the recent major floods which destroyed her home. “When did you lose your husband?” “About 3 or 4 years ago.” “And what happened, did leave you or..?” “No he […]

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]]> Flames of the Bay, Chennai, India https://imkiran.com/flames-of-the-bay/ Fri, 15 Jan 2016 15:33:14 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=5189 She stood there watching me move, to see her whisper into the shadows. She burns with fire that flames her soul, she leads a life that gives her pleasure, to be whole. I see her sweat falling off her life, making a living for her family, her child. The hope of being present. It’s never […]

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]]> My Truth In Chennai | India https://imkiran.com/my-truth-in-chennai/ Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:23:29 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=5173 When I got to Chennai is was hard for me to see what my purpose is, meaning to say I didn’t feel like I belong. Somehow disconnected with the reality here. Maybe as I was feeling lost in this little busy dirty city or maybe I wanted to be more in a village area to […]

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]]> Fishing For Hope | Voices Of Chennai https://imkiran.com/fishing-hope-voices-of-chennai/ Sun, 10 Jan 2016 15:46:22 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=5147 A young girl spends her afternoon playing with a homemade fishing rod, in hopes to catch a fish. The reality is there are no more fish here after years of pollution and rubbish being dumped into this river. She can only dream or wish for a clean river to play and swim in. Many rivers […]

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]]> Losing It All At Surya Nagar Floods | Voices Of Chennai https://imkiran.com/losing-it-all-at-surya-nagar-voicesofchennai/ Thu, 31 Dec 2015 15:47:16 +0000 http://www.imkiran.com/?p=5150 A resident of Surya Nagar slums sits by her house which was destroyed by the Chennai Floods. She is part of the survivors of the floods which displaces 1.8 million people in the South India territory in the first week of December. Today she awaits for help to come, to be relocated to a new […]

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