July – Photo of the Month

We continue to get more beautiful, jaw-dropping pictures of rural India, courtesy our remarkable photo community. Have a look at these amazing shortlisted photos for Photo of the Month - July.

 A teacher teaches Bengali alphabets to his student (Photo by Surit Datta)

Ice cream, jhoola and a lot of fun – a vibrant, local fair in Bhangoria, Madhya Pradesh (Photo by Nimai Chandra Ghosh)

Children enjoy their bath-time in a village pond in West Bengal (Photo by Nimai Chandra Ghosh)

An old man concentrates sugarcane juice into jaggery in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh  (Photo by Kaushik Paul)

A woman separates chaff from wheat in Purulia, West Bengal. (Photo by Shrabanti Mitra)

A group of adult women learn as their children play (Photo by Raj Kumar Som)

Harvesting gold – A farmer winnows grain with his hand in West Medinipur (Photo by Anirban Pan)

A mother cooks food as her kid watches eagerly in Junnar, Maharashtra (Photo by Mahesh Dhobale)

A farmer ploughs farm land on a rainy afternoon (Photo by Anirban Pan)

Woman returns home with her cattle after feeding them (Photo by Nikhil Paliwal)

A laptop, a globe and the curiosity to learn – children in Birbhum, West Bengal, learn with their new tools (Photo by Surit Datta)