Vaishnavi Rathore

1 month ago | scroll.in | Tabassum Barnagarwala |Vaishnavi Rathore

The crowd starts gathering at Manjunath Gowda’s street-food stall outside a government office in suburban Mumbai every work day, starting from 7 am. The customers are there to fuel their day with a quick bite of the city’s iconic street snacks – vada pao, samosa pao, pao bhaji. A key element of all of these dishes is the soft, fluffy loaf of bread known as pao. “Without pao, our business is nothing,” said one of Gowda’s assistants. Gowda’s stall uses hundreds of loaves of pao every day.

2 months ago | commonground.stck.me | Vaishnavi Rathore |Nolina Minj

Hello,On January 18, Prime Minister Narendra Modi issued 65 lakh property cards to residents of more than 50,000 villages across India. On the occasion, he said, “Our government through the Svamitava yojna has made the people of our villages so capable that it can completely transform Indian rural life.”The Svamitva scheme was launched in 2020, and aimed to use drones to map inhabited rural areas in the country.

2 months ago | scroll.in | Vaishnavi Rathore |Nolina Minj

One day in July 2022, a group of children in Shikarpur, a village in Delhi, ran towards Gulshan Tyagi. “Are we under an attack, uncle?” they asked playfully, explaining that they had seen a drone flying over their village. Tyagi, a resident of the village, ignored them. It was only two years later, when he saw a public notice on a wall of the village temple, that Tyagi realised what the drones had been used for.