Reuters photographer Adnan Abidi has shot world events ranging from the 1999 Kandahar hijack of Indian Airlines flight IC814 to the Kashmir earthquake in 2005. Here, he photographs the world's largest family at their home in the Indian village of Baktwang, where a man lives with 181 members of his family.
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Has the feeling sunk in? âItâs indeed a great honour, and I am grateful⦠Iâm actually now more on my toes and giving much greater attention to the details of every story Iâve been assigned post that one,â says Adnan, who has more than two decades of experience in photojournalism, and has captured many other challenging incidents such as IC-814 hijack, 2004 Tsunami, Nepal earthquake, Cyclone Phailin in Orissa, the Maldives coup and Dhaka terrorist attack on his lens.