TIGER POACHING IN INDIA
Instead of hanging out in the pleasant but rather staid company of the park officials who were organising the relocation, we began following Dharmendra Khandal, a maverick anti-poaching activist who heads a small NGO called Tiger Watch. Critical of the park authorities and as a consequence shunned by them, Khandal runs his own show chasing down the poachers and gun-makers who have recently wreaked such havok on the tiger populations of Ranthambore and Sariska.
INDIAN HEALTHCARE
Photographing on a labour ward in central India confirmed to me that healthcare divides this country into a tiny minority who can afford top-grade care and the rest who must make do with a under resourced and oversubscribed service.
ALCOHOL IN INDIA
Alcohol is a divisive issue in India. From pimps to socialites, attitudes toward drink vary from class to class.