• Monday, 4th May 2026

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Jaideep Hardikar

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Jaideep Hardikar

Pastoralism

‘The only constant in our life is uncertainty’

Mashrubhai is a Rabari pastoralist who travels with his animals across western and central India. An evening in his company,…
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The Kachchh caravan stumbles on

Many camels were detained by the Maharashtra police and forcibly separated from their semi-nomadic Rabari owners last year. Although released…
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Kachchh camels’ custody: ships of the deserted

Maharashtra police detained five traditional herders from Kachchh on January 7 suspecting these semi-nomadic pastoralists were smuggling camels to slaughterhouses…
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Vidarbha’s pastoralists paying a pandemic price

The Nanda Gaolis and other dairy farmers in eastern Maharashtra are facing losses from the drop in demand for milk…
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Jaideep Hardikar

Jaideep Hardikar is a senior journalist and PARI Roving Reporter, based in Nagpur. He is author of Ramrao: The story of India’s farm crisis.

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