To go with 'India-Pollution-Agriculture', FOCUS by Arunabh SAIKIA
In this photograph taken on November 26, 2024, women labourers gather paddy harvested from a field on the outskirts of Panipat in India's Haryana state. Burning strips the fertility of the fields, has a ruinous impact on India's economy and sends plumes of acrid smoke packed with dangerous cancer-causing particles drifting over a densely-populated belt of northern India, including the 30 million people in the capital New Delhi. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP) / To go with 'India-Pollution-Agriculture', FOCUS by Arunabh SAIKIA