Faces of India

I had to stop and get a picture since this man was so cool just sitting there.. as always fun filled and amazing encounters…it seems like I never get tired of these moments…    

Necessity, the mother of inventions

at first I didn’t get what this man was doing…all I could see was that he was pedalling but standing still but then aha !……he’s a knife sharpener. innovative ! and it has got to be the green way to get sharp knives

Haircut or shave anyone ?

alongside a road, I guess this man found an empty space among all the advertisements and sat up his salon haircut or shave anyone ? on a much smaller street I found this young man in his salon entrepreneurs everywhere….

Time traveling

sometimes it’s like traveling back in time when you see people here in India doing things the way they where done in Sweden like 100 years ago…. laundry is one of those things…in Mewat I met these lovely ladies doing laundry like my grandmother did when she was a young girl..we’re talking 1920 in Sweden…it’s difficult to comprehend that this is how the bigger…

Nandgaon, the village on the hill

Nandgaon is really a small village on a hill with the temple in the center and right at the top……winding alleys leading up up…..(only about 9000 people live here) many stairs leading up up up to the temple through the village.. on the way up…. in white before the lath mar celebration started not everyone was involved in the festivities…or maybe he was just…

Nandgaon men preparing for the Lath mar holi.

the men from Nandgaon prepare themselves before walking to Barsana to get hit with the laths-sticks by the women in the village…preparing means getting shields ready and getting red colour all over you…the shields are made with cardboard paper, pillows and sticks..all for the show..Nandgaon is a beautiful little village and the walk up to the temple was  special but I have to show…

A chat and a chai

Between the two villages Barsana and Nandgaon I made a little pit stop and everyone smiled when they saw me….well, the kids where laughing actually… no wonder they smiled ….I was really colourful…. it was the colourful houses and the people I saw sitting beside the road that made me stop so out I went for a chat..and as always  I was invited for…

On a roof top I met some young newly married girls.

I met these adorable young girls on a roof top the other day…I watched  them doing mehndi and they told me that two of them just got married a month ago..since they looked really young I had to ask how old they where.14 and 16 and just married. I didn’t dare to ask any more questions since I was afraid of how I would…

What village does this daughter come from?

 asked this old man when I stopped and clicked some pictures of him enjoying his afternoon smoke on his hookah            ….my driver told him that I come from the foreign village …..

Performers/Dancers

at the Arts and Craft museum in Delhi. This is one of my favourite places to go whenever we have visitors. Vendors and performers together with all the exhibitions at the museum and a really good cafe’/lunch place inside makes this a must to do thing when in Delhi. amazing…I couldn’t take my eyes of their makeup and decorations.