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Ten-year-old Mani is overmuch loved successful his neighbourhood successful Adyar, Chennai. Found arsenic a puppy and cared for with with affection, the streetie shares a peculiar enslaved with paper collector Pandian and is often seen hitching a thrust connected his tricycle. Mani’s 1 specified joyful infinitesimal captured by amateur lensman Vishwanathan is 1 among the 12 heartwarming stories of The Indie Calendar 2026.
Prathima Pingali | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Pet lensman Prathima Pingali, laminitis of Pawparazzi, a favored photography institution calls 'The India Calendar 2026 - Awaara nahi, humara hain' a heartfelt tribute to the enslaved shared with streeties including cats. Pratima has been moving connected a favored calendar for six years to make consciousness for indies and their adoption. “This year’s calendar is different,” she says. “Many carnal lovers person taken to the streets to protestation against the caller Supreme Court verdict connected stray dogs and the gyration was tagged arsenic ‘Awara nahin, hamaara hai’ (‘They are not strays, they are ours’). We wanted to item it successful this year’s calendar.
Like a family
A photograph by Manjusha Pillai | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The intent was to diagnostic stories of radical who bash not person capable money, resources oregon adjacent a location but they person opened their hearts to instrumentality attraction of streeties and dainty them similar their ain family. “Apart from featuring stories, we besides convey these individuals to item the information that if they tin beryllium truthful loving and open, what is stopping america from doing so? Why are we moving aft breeds? Why aren’t we giving capable emotion to our Indies?”
Photographers who person contributed
Minal Kalekar, Prathima Pingali, Vishwanathan, Sameera Sindhu, Rishabh Sinha, Manjusha Pillai, Maitreyi Damugade, Purva Desai, Nupur Singh, and Diya Pais.
More than 50 radical enrolled for the task successful October and submitted the photos successful aboriginal November 2025. “Whether they were selected oregon not, they inactive went retired and brought america those beauteous stories.” Prathima besides did photograph walks to assistance members recognize the nuances of photography.
A photograph by Rishabh Sinha | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The enactment process was elemental — a heartwarming story, photograph with a quality constituent and an indie stray canine being cared for by idiosyncratic who provides nutrient and structure everyday. “We wanted the enactment betwixt the idiosyncratic and the stray canine to beryllium highlighted. We person featured cats arsenic well.”
Twelve stories were selected from Chennai, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Baindur successful Karnataka, and Kochi. Speaking of the originative bureau Homegrown which designed the calendar, Prathima says, “Homegrown’s proprietor Varsha Patra and I connected connected our emotion for animals and this was the cleanable commencement to our journey.”
The table calendar is priced astatine ₹899; partition calendar is ₹1199. Available astatine www.pawparazzi .com.
