![No Guarantees – A Family Ponders its Future](https://migrationdiaries.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/md_story-01-768x432.jpg)
Ambati Simanchal and Ambati Ankama are a young married couple from the Bada Arjyapalli region of the Ganjam ...
![Waiting for my son](https://migrationdiaries.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/md_story-3-768x432.jpg)
A. Achamma, is now 70 years old. Frail and crippled, this fisherwoman lives in the coastal village of Sana Nolia ...
![Struggles of an old couple in a fishing village](https://migrationdiaries.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/md_story-2-768x432.jpg)
It had been four years since her husband, D.Mukodu, passed away. One day, at sea, during high tide, waves lashed ...
![The wife awaits her husband’s return](https://migrationdiaries.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/md_story-8-768x432.jpg)
Lakshmi, is a 23-year-old homemaker from Odisha's Nua Podampeta fishing village in the Ganjam district, Odisha. ...
![Shells to the rescue of the old and frail](https://migrationdiaries.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/md_story-9-768x432.jpg)
Surukulu Potamma and Surukulu Shriram hail from the Podampeta village in the Ganjam district, Odisha, and belong ...
![Life in a cage](https://migrationdiaries.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/md_story-4-768x432.jpg)
Gareya had followed the norm of his forefathers, of remaining in his coastal village and setting out each day from ...
![We are not Daughters; We are our Parent’s Sons](https://migrationdiaries.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/md_story-5-768x432.jpg)
Aarti Behera and Bijaya Behera are sisters. Hailing from a fishing family in the coastal village of Purnabandha, ...
![The story of a girl who sacrificed her smile](https://migrationdiaries.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/md_story-6-768x432.jpg)
She returns to her village for a month, only during the vacation granted by her company during Dussehra. At ...
![From hauling fishing nets to lifting cement bags](https://migrationdiaries.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/md_story-7-768x432.jpg)
“Lack of income from fishing in Purnabandha has taken me away from my family.” Purna Chandra Behera had taken up ...
![Losing land to shrimp farms](https://migrationdiaries.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Pratap-Chandra-Sarker-Featured.jpg)
Pratap Sarker has seen first-hand how his village has changed over the course of a mere forty years. A resident of ...