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Articles by Smitha Tumuluru

About Smitha Tumuluru
Smitha Tumuluru is a documentary photographer based in Bengaluru. Her prior work on development projects in Tamil Nadu informs her reporting and documenting of rural lives.
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COVID effect: Migrant tailors who left Bengaluru hope to return soon

October 13, 2020 Smitha Tumuluru

With no income in the lockdown, Abdul Sattar and other embroiderers in Bengaluru were desperate to return to their West Bengal village. Now, with no work in the village, Sattar is desperate to come back to the city.

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