Faces of India
Posted on April 13, 2016
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
Posted on April 10, 2016
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 ?
Posted on April 9, 2016
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
Posted on April 4, 2016
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 part of the population do their wash here in India…
as always colourful and with wonderful jewelry
love the tribal jewelry like this one in silver on an ankle
happy but shy faces
turned out that while I was getting my pictures a big group of Indians had gathered to get pictures of the photographer….that would be me.
Street life in Gurgaon
Posted on March 31, 2016
today on my way home from work I stopped and clicked some pictures of the street life.it’s always vibrant and filled with colour I didn’t notice the guy inside the estate hut until I ha…
Source: Street life in Gurgaon
A mustard field filled with beauty.
Posted on March 31, 2016
today I had the most wonderful encounter in a mustard field in a village in the rural areas of Gurgaon. It’s harvest time so they where out cutting the mustard by hand with their reapers̷…
Nandgaon, the village on the hill
Posted on March 31, 2016
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 resting so he could be part of it?
the big doors leading into the temple where really beautiful
from above
this is one way to make potato chips….you put them out in the sun for a while….I guess one condition is that you live in a country where outside means oven temperatures !
this was one of those villages that I wouldn’t mind coming back to under calmer circumstances…meaning not during holi.
just below the hill I found this ghat….
nice to see and hear some kids having fun…..I will be back next year…then I will be in the midst of the celebrations for sure.
Nandgaon men preparing for the Lath mar holi.
Posted on March 30, 2016
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 you all that in the next post…too many pictures otherwise
the temple is really on the top of the village
on one of the shields you can see the swastika..the swastika dates back to before 2nd century B.C and is a sacred and auspicious symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism..then during the WW 2 , someone namned Hitler stole it and ever after it’s been connected with the Nazis ..at least for us living in Europe and some other parts of the world.
the temple was so beautiful inside…I need to go back when it’s not filled with people , actually mostly men, carrying red colour to throw at you…
chanting, singing and throwing the red colour…getting in the mood for the show in Barsana where actually some of the men will be caught by the women… they then have to walk back to Nandgaon the next day dressed as women !
yet another adventure in colourful India.
A chat and a chai
Posted on March 29, 2016
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 some chai…
he so wanted to show of the family goat….poor thing…it sure looks funny though….
a very shy young girl who thought she had ugly teeth so she didn’t want to show them off by smiling…she had the most beautiful smile and I didn’t notice anything with her teeth…
turned out to be a fantastic chat and a good chai along the road
On a roof top I met some young newly married girls.
Posted on March 28, 2016
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 react to the answer.
she asked me if I knew how to tell that they where married ?
by the toe rings.
youngest sister 11 years old and not yet married. I must say that my heart was filled with all kinds of feelings after meeting these lovely girls.
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