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HomeAuthorsM Palani Kumar/PARI

Articles by M Palani Kumar/PARI

About M Palani Kumar/PARI
M Palani Kumar is a 2019 PARI Fellow, and a photographer who documents the lives of the marginalised. He was the cinematographer for ‘Kakoos,’ a documentary on manual scavengers in Tamil Nadu by filmmaker Divya Bharathi.
Civic

Semmancheri residents don’t want food packets. This is what they really need

December 16, 2020 M Palani Kumar/PARI

Cyclone Nivar inundated Semmanjeri – but the misery that followed is nothing new for the people relocated to this area to make way for development projects.

Society

Kotturpuram’s Rita akka loves her cats and dogs

March 21, 2020 M Palani Kumar/PARI

Her mornings go in clearing garbage in Kotturpuram’s streets for Chennai Corporation, but Rita akka, a differently-abled contract worker, spends her evenings feeding and talking to her canine companions.

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