Night burning of rice fields: infrapolitics in action, farmers evading state penalties
Everyday irrigation technology designed and implemented by farmers: small, improvised innovations that reveal alternative ways of engaging with industrial agriculture
At least these bottles are not discarded in the fields — containment itself becomes a fragile act of care
The precarious labor of sustainability: workers caught between corporate metrics and everyday dangers
Papaya as pedagogy: a farmer’s gift in Andhra Pradesh, reminding me that nourishment is always relational
The everyday presence of chemical bottles speaks to industrial agriculture’s entanglement with toxicity and productivity
Installing pipes for incentives: labor framed as sustainability, yet its outcomes remain uncertain
Geo-tagging pipes after installation: when sustainability becomes a data point
Installing pipes, uncovering stories: the ecology of rice fields beneath our feet
Behind every farm gate in Haryana: the one-room homes of migrant laborers
Ready to be planted, this nursery carries the promise of new growth and labor
Rain meets soil, and every step leaves a trace
Each seedling placed by hand tells a story of care and toil
Everywhere water, nowhere assured — the hidden crisis of farming
Each step on these embankments is a careful negotiation with the earth
Coconut-lined roads please the executives, but the fields tell a very different story
A community’s treasure: water reflecting the sky, and the day’s last light
The sun blazes, the water burns, and the body bears the work of the fields
Steel and poison: the marks of modern industrial farming
Wilted, weathered, overworked — the plants tell a story of industry
