Showing posts with label People. Show all posts
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things about delhi
And back again! A smile and a wave to you, follower, and you, worthy reader. It's alright, I know you're all in my head too. Here are some photographs that were taken this past year in Delhi. There aren't that many, not because I haven't been exploring the city, but that it's a clear case what my favourite parts are: old people and ruins, you make the world a better place.
A trinket seller at the Daryagunj book market, I told him about scoring Milligan's War for twenty bucks but he was unimpressed and suggested I'd be better off with one of his pendants. Sales tactic win on his side? Weak character on mine? Who knows these things.
A bit of cricket at dusk, through a comfortable peephole at the Jamali-Kamali mosque, Mehrauli.
A walnut eater at Meena Bazaar.
Nizamuddin on Urs. The smell of dying rose petals and slowly cooking meat and sudden flashes of light bouncing off gold embroidery. Hectic and overpowering. Beauty, beauty.
An school in R K Puram run by an ngo that I did a photo project for.
Renovation work at Humayun's tomb. The combination of moss and sandstone, it does things to me. If I had my way I'd stop all misled conservation attempts and let things crumble poetically, but don't tell my professors that. Or the ASI.
Riding a giant ferris wheel at the Eid Milan Mela in front of the Red Fort.
Deep, deep within the gallis of R K Puram.
Chawri Bazaar on a Sunday.
And a hurried flash in Govindpuri I probably won't be able to find again, but nevermind, who doesn't love a panther and a pahalwan?
Fisherfolk.


I have more photos of people from the village from last year, when we arrived a week too early for the turtles and walked around the village and watched the fishing boats come in and saw the biggest swordfish ever. But I took them all on my father's old Nikon SLR and scanning them is a monumental pain in the behind so these will have to do.
Gokharkuda, 2011
Sanjoy's shop, a tiny piece of colourfulness in the midst of Sudder Street. Bags and tees and scarves and the loosest flimsiest man-repeller pants this side of a hundred bucks.
Sudder Street may be where all the cool Indiahopping hippies are but Sanjoy's shop is where we wannabe flowerchildren get de garb. And sometimes we discover a cool hippie or two plonked down on the mattress.
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