Purple Karma

Faces

Posted by Prateek Ahuja 1 comments Labels: bop, despair, disease, eyes, faces, healthcare, hunger, India, operation asha, poor, portrait, poverty, prateek ahuja, purplekarma, slums, Starve, story, tb, tuberculosis

Faces. They tell you a story. A story that has never been told. A story that longs to be heard. These faces and these stories have an existence. But this very existence becomes questionable when the trap is an ancient disease. The disease was called 'Consumption' and rightly so has consumed humans like none other. It doesn't seem to cease even after taking billons of lives. The look of despair, the hunger,...

Face of TB

Posted by Prateek Ahuja 0 comments Labels: child, disease, Face, hyphenen, India, kush, lung, New Delhi, operation asha, poor, portrait, prateek, Purple Karma, purplekarma, stigma, tb, tuberculosis

Yet another post on these patients and their families fighting the disease which is also referred to as an ancient disease which still exists and still kills. These are some of the patients who are fighting the situation and the stigma that comes with tuberculosis. For them, every day is a survival. These are sad faces and happy faces and sad faces within happy faces. ...

my love for Diane continues…

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and fascination for her work to...

The colors of slums - I

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Its amazing to see and take notice of the colors that are present around you when you are walking into a not-very-well-to-do-locality, which are otherwise also called slums. And its almost as fascinating to see how these colors in the newly painted walls and brightly painted doors create a different world altogether. You will perhaps never get to see such a thing in a well-to-do neighborhood but is a trite in slums...

TB: The Biggest Killer - a photo reportage

Posted by Prateek Ahuja 0 comments Labels: asha, biggest, black and white, cambodia, development, disease, hope, killer, lung, operation, operation asha, patients, phnom penh, poor, portrait, portraits, poverty, tb, tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease of poverty, affecting mostly young adults in their most productive years. More than one third of the world’s total population is infected with TB bacilli, the microbes that cause TB. More than half the TB deaths occur in Asia. Cambodia is among top 22 high burden countries in the world. Hav Kong lives with 14 other family members in a small house. His wife suffers as he struggles with multiple...