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Thiruvallur , Tamil Nadu

Dec 19, 2025

A body that knows no rest

A young student documents through her photos the life of a mobile street vendor, Amulu, selling vegetables in Thiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu as she battles heatwaves and other harsh realities of life to ensure a good life for her children

Photo Editor

M. Palani Kumar

Author and Photographer

Hairunisha K.

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Editor

Pratishtha Pandya

Pratishtha Pandya is a Senior Editor at PARI where she leads PARI's creative writing section. She is also a member of the PARIBhasha team and translates and edits stories in Gujarati. Pratishtha is a published poet working in Gujarati and English.

Author and Photographer

Hairunisha K.

Hairunisha is an independent photo journalist, pursing masters in Mass Communication at Jamia Millia Islamia University. A member of the People’s Photographers Collective, she works as a Social Media Coordinator at PARI for Tamil.

Photo Editor

M. Palani Kumar

M. Palani Kumar is Staff Photographer at People's Archive of Rural India. He is interested in documenting the lives of working-class women and marginalised people. Palani has received the Amplify grant in 2021, and Samyak Drishti and Photo South Asia Grant in 2020. He received the first Dayanita Singh-PARI Documentary Photography Award in 2022. Palani was also the cinematographer of ‘Kakoos' (Toilet), a Tamil-language documentary exposing the practice of manual scavenging in Tamil Nadu.