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Indian wedding: the blessings

2012-03-02
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If one thing happened a lot at the Indian wedding, this was the blessings: they were doing it at every step and again and again – the groom parents blessing the groom, the women in the groom house blessing the groom, the women blessing the plate at the river, the groom father blessing the bride, the bride father blessing the groom, the bride family blessing the groom, the groom family blessing the bride… and some more I forgot about for the moment 🙂

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Indian wedding: the presents

2012-03-02
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The groom’s family prepared a lot of presents for the bride and her family. They were decorated by a specialist, a guy who does wedding present packaging for a living, then sent away, Of course, the bride’s family did the same, sending its own batch of presents. This exchange happened the day before the main wedding ceremony.

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Indian wedding: the preparations

2012-03-02
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This turmeric based powder she is making here is used as an ingredient in many of the ceremonies around the wedding. It is also used for color and as spice for the curry 🙂 This operation happened at the groom’s house and was one of the first, it definitely was the first I attended too.

indian wedding

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Martisor Tango

2012-03-02
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Just like last year, Mărțișor was celebrated at the subway, in the Unirii 1 station. This time the place was more crowded, with a lot more photographer, and also the program was richer: it had music and tango.

martisor
martisor
martisor
martisor

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Indian wedding: the glamour and behind it

2012-03-01
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So I had the opportunity to attend and shoot an Indian wedding, a rare opportunity which is very little likely to repeat. What would you expect from one: glamour or misery? Gods or people? I give your for the beginning a pair of pics: the hands and the feet of the bride when she wad ready for the big ceremony.

indian wedding
indian wedding

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Waving hands

2012-02-25
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I will end for now the posts with street photos from my Indian travel, but this is not goodbye, there are more photos to show, some illustrating the family life, some illustrating the wedding I attended. And there may be also a surprise 🙂 Let me wave my hand “see you soon!”

goodbye
goodbye
goodbye

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Indian village beauties

2012-02-25
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It was a holiday that day, they were celebrating the goddess of learning, so we went to the school to observe the ceremonies. The village girls were wearing their nicest clothes, to impress the boys, of course, and going to the girl’s school:

village beauties
village beauties

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Main street

2012-02-25
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Most of the time spent in India I was in the village of Ukhra, which is, I was told, a large village with about 30000 people (wow! how is that not a city?) which had the marketplace by the sides of the main street. A very busy street, impossible to stay half a minute and get the chance for a proper picture, had to be fast!

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street

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Kids are kids everywhere

2012-02-24
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The kids were playing near the river, they noticed me, posed a little (in bad light) then ignored me and continued their play (in a better light):

kids

Chilling from play, they took some refreshing coconuts and came again to pose for me, proudly sipping the coconut milk:

kids

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The hermit

2012-02-24
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Everybody knows you will find hermits in India and I found this guy:

hermit

And his unusual house, near the river beach:

hermit

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Railroad slums

2012-02-24
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Those shacks by the railroad are probably one of the poorest houses I saw on my Indian trip and they are located somewhere in the Kolkata city. I also saw something extremely poor in Mumbai, but I didn’t get the time to walk in that city, what I saw was only from the plane, during the landing and taking-off.

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Beggar monkey

2012-02-24
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This beggar from Kolkata was not content with 5 rupies, so I took one single snap and that was all. The reality is, I had no change on me, even those rupies were borrowed from a friend (not a wise idea to be in India having only 100USD bills in your wallet).

beggar

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ACTA?

2012-02-23
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A short interlude from the Indian travel photography: on my other blog I have a post about yesterday’s evening debate “ACTA and the Internet. The end or the beginning of an era?“, complete with pictures from the event. You may want to read it.

ACTA

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Fishing

2012-02-23
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Near the city of Durgapur on the Damodar river there is a big barrage to prevent flooding during the rain season. After the barrage, there is a wasteland with some ponds, which supposedly have fish. You can see the barrage wall as the background in the fishermen picture and the wasteland behind their encampment.

fishing
fishing

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Cooking

2012-02-23
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People were preparing traditional Indian food for the big party after the weeding and a lot of food was needed, from my understanding about 800 guests were expected for the party. For my European eye however, it looks a bit… unsafe 🙂 I bet such a food preparing company couldn’t resist here open more than 5 minutes before being closed by the health inspectors, but somehow I managed to eat it and have no problems. It may be due to the spice…

cooking
cooking
cooking

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