World Photography Day: Every photo tells a story

Every year, lesser and greater flamingos turn up in thousands at Rajasthan's Sambhar salt lake between the months of June and November. These migratory birds come here in search of food. But lately the pollution caused by illegal salt-making units has reduced the number of these birds coming to the saline lake. Photo: Vikas Choudhary

A Baiga tribesman smokes a bidi he made. He has filled a sal tree leaf (Sarai patta) with unprocessed tobacco. Baigas were among the first forest dwelling communities to gain habitat rights. Many such communities now fear that the cover provided to them by the Forest Rights Act may not stand long. Photo: Vikas Choudhary

Babulal, a priest, runs through fire during a ritual on Holi in Phalen village near Mathura. Photo: Vikas Choudhary

This man belongs to a tribal community and stands at a piece of land that belonged to the villagers in Chhattisgarh's Surguja district some months ago. But it has now been given to a coal mining company that has cut all trees there and disturbed the area's ecology. Photo: Vikas Choudhary

Rohingya children, living with their families in camps in Shaheen Bagh, New Delhi, are often seen playing with broken syringes, used band-aids, blood-smudged gauze and used saline bottles. Most of the Rohingya families work as waste segregators to earn Rs 250/day by sifting through heaps of medical waste. The children often fall prey to diseases, including lung infections and severe skin allergies. Private vendors collect medical waste from prominent hospitals in the city and dump them near such refugee camps. Photo: Vikas Choudhary

It's a drilling machine. People near Junagarh in Gujarat spend lakhs to get their land drilled in search of water. And many times they don't find anything. Photo: Vikas Choudhary

Police opened water cannons on protesting farmers at Delhi-UP border on October 2, 2018. This Kisan Kranti Yatra was to demand a full implementation of the recommendations of the Swaminathan Commission report so that they get a reasonable minimum support priceand security for small farmers, unconditional loan waiver and payment of their sugarcane dues. Photo: Vikas Choudhary