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Travel notes from the Word Press blog 'Rest of my Family' is like watching an action-packed television drama.
Founded by freelance journalist, blogger, and photographer duo Akshatha Shetty and Piyush Goswami, 'Rest of my Family' is an answer to modern India's ignoramus attitude towards rural people.
For the past two to three years, the duo have been travelling extensively through rural India, understanding, experiencing, and documenting social and human interest stories on their blog restofmyfamily.wordpress.com.
The protagonists of the blog, Piyush and Akshatha, face real dilemmas like safe housing, troubles with police authorities, and broken down vehicles throughout their journeys.
They undertake the hard and arduous journeys across the country's less travelled roads to meet people who are seldom heard of; people who more often than once are only a statistic in mainstream media's reportage of the country.
"The people we met, despite all the hardships they were going through, treated us like family. We were so overwhelmed with kindness and compassion shown to us by these folks. To us, these people we were writing about were not merely names, faces or yet any other figure in any statistics," said Akshatha.
"They were family. We formed a strong connection with each and every one of them," she added. Piyush and Akshatha both graduated from the National Institute of Technology in Surathkal, Karnataka. After spending a few years in the IT industry, both Akshatha and Piyush made a shift to journalism and photography respectively. Recently, they quit their full time job to pursue this year-long social project. Akshatha was born and raised in Bahrain.
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Akshatha Shetty and Piyush Goswami |
Team 'Rest of My Family' > Akshata Shetty and Piyush Goswami began their career as IT professionals > Shetty took up job as a journalist for a national daily in India; Piyush dedicated himself to becoming a full-time photographer > Project was born early 2015 > Through the project, they focus on issues such as female infanticide, child labour, climate change, lack of standardised minimum wages, malnutrition, lack of educational facilities, women and child issues, lack of sanitation, water, and electricity etc in rural and tribal India > Their project has raised $10,500 in a month on a crowdfunding website > Benefactors will receive calendars, laptop sleeves, photo books, posters, postcards, iPhone cases, and photo journals in return |
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