Shoshin

A wide-eyed look at everything around me, with a beginner's mind. Photography | Stories | Environment | People | Art | words ... inter alia

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They store fish in a hollowed out gourd! Found it most intriguing. On assignment #teesta #artisanalfishing #riverdiaries #rivers #brahmaputra #fishermen

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It used to never go dry like this, they say. On board a dugout at a sandbar island that pokes out of a shallow #teesta - one of too many. On assignment #riverdiaries #rivers #brahmaputra

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Along the #teesta it's paddy harvesting time. Pots boil paddy before it is spread out to dry (above) in each village. On assignment #riverdiaries #rivers #brahmaputra

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A wet drizzly day in #bangladesh as i head up 300KM towards the India border. On assignment #riverdiaries #brahmaputra

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Women are a majority in indian fisheries (marine over 50%, inland 72%). Imagine a collapse of that industry: may not be too far in the future. #fisheries #women #rivers #dams #iphone4s

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Commercial trawlers net in 2months what traditional fishing nets in some 4yrs. Not to mention marine-life wasted as bycatch which is orders of magnitude more. Marine stocks will be gone by 2048. #fisheries #livelihood #oceans #globalfisheries #artisanalfishing #iphone #kerala

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1Bn of the world's poor get their only protein from fish. But commercial trawlers are sucking stocks dry #fisheries

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A fisherman checks his setup: #artisanalfishing in #wetlands. #traildiaries #brahmaputra

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Yet another form of #artisanalfishing. Simple tools: a scoop, a net. #traildiaries #brahmaputra #rivers

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Artisanal fishing. Small hill-stream #fish hand-caught. #brahmaputra #traildiaries #fishermen #artisanalfishing

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No poison, no electric shocks, no dynamites. Net-fishing in wetlands. #traildiaries #brahmaputra #fisheries #wetlands

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#Rivers of life. A tributary of a tributary of the #Brahmaputra... #assam #traildiaries

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Reflections on a ferry ride across the #brahmaputra :) #traildiaries

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The call of a Western Hoolock Gibbon #traildiaries #Brahmaputra #endangeredspecies #primates

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I <3 wetlands. Unsung heroes. Undervalued ecosystems. More about this soon #traildiaries #brahmaputra

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Window or Aisle? Never a dilemma for me. Window, please. So i can see #rivers, imagine lives somewhere down there. #traildiaries #aerial

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Half a dozen Hoolock Gibbons this morning. Whooping leaping swinging. La pura vida #traildiaries #brahmaputra