Devyani Nighoskar

Care work­ers – of­ten women who are un­der­paid and un­recog­nised – are on the front lines tend­ing to the sick.

Treat­ed like en­croach­ers, a com­mu­ni­ty in In­dia fights for rights to the for­est they built.

No­madic Van Gu­j­jars in north­ern In­dia fear re­main­ing in the for­est while their re­set­tled rel­a­tives strug­gle to ad­just.

In Beed dis­trict, where the dai­ly wage for fe­male farm­ers is $3, women are hav­ing hys­terec­tomies in their twen­ties.