One is the Loneliest Number, Or is It?
A young boy sits alone with his thoughts in Kolkata, India.What are his thoughts?What are your thoughts?All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite…
Spice Market – Old Delhi
The world's obsession with Indian spices has gone on for many centuries. Spices, and the promise of gold, is what sent Christopher Columbus sailing for the "New World" thinking he…
Butcher Shop – Old Delhi
An open air butcher shop in the labyrinth of alleyways in the spice market area of Old Delhi. The men are engaged in a lively discussion, perhaps about the price…
Ganesha Hidden in Kolkata, India
Hidden
The Hindu deity Ganesha lies hidden behind tree roots along a ghat in Kolkata, India. Ironically, Ganesha is revered as the remover of obstacles. Darkness was hidden in a deeper…
Kathputli Colony, Delhi – One Shot, Two Ways
It is estimated that half of Delhi's 18 million inhabitants live in slums. Curiously, some of the slums are so called "authorized colonies" but most are "unauthorized colonies." Life in…
Fresh Flowers for a Goddess
I believe that the civilization India has evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestry. Rome went; Greece shared the…
Golden Hour – Morning on the Ghats of Varanasi
"Varanasi is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together” ___Mark Twain Varanasi, in northern India, is…
Going With the Flow, Kumbh Mela – India
“It is wonderful, the power of a faith like that, that can make multitudes upon multitudes of the old and weak and the young and frail enter without hesitation or…
Widow of Vrindavan
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. Mother Teresa According to Hindu tradition widows may not remarry. Instead they are to spend their remaining lives…
Texture – Old Delhi – Plus Color and Shape
Lots of texture here. The coarse wood lintel over the doorway, the rough plaster, and the peeling paint. And then there are the hues of blue and green contrasting with…