This post is very close to my heart as I travelled to the 'Other India' to shoot this. I stayed with one of these families for a couple of days to understand how to 'survive' when you have been branded as a witch due to various reasons. My focus was on children of these so-called witches who aren't directly in the line of fire but carry the burden of humiliation nonetheless...sometimes for their entire lives...here are a few stories of these unblessed children. It has been 10 years, but 150 km away from that fateful day, Mani is still trapped. Her mother was branded as a witch and hacked to death by her own son (Mani’s brother). Mani wants to smile again, but being a ‘witch’s daughter’ isn’t easy. Pappu’s eyes betray his close encounter with death. His mother was killed by his relatives for “consuming his father” . Pappu’s occasional smile is a reminder of the lost innocent. Abandoned by all, 12 year Pappu only wants some friends to play and go to schoo...
Untold stories of people known and unknown