Rajasthani women cooking in their kitchen, in a village south of Jodhpur
Savitri going to place herselve in line to get free food : a bit of vegetable, Dal and Chapatis. By coming singing and praying everyday, twice a day she can get the free food and some roupies.
Pilgrims circling the Ram Raja temple in Orchha, on the occasion of the Ram and Sita wedding.
Rajuri is from a caste of singer. She usually sings with her father alongside the Holy lake in Pushkar.
A kid diving into the sacred tank in Amber. The ancient Hindu village extends behind the imposing fortress, and is surprisingly rich in unvisited marvels, like the Krishna temple, all carved in white marble. Beautiful, welcoming and peaceful. The water tank tradition is of the utmost importance in the arid and semi- desert Indian state of Rajasthan, The tank needs to be very deep, so a lot of stairs are geometrically built, a graphic delight.
Selling Vadais near the Murugan temple in Tiruchendur
An Indian woman offering freshly picked flowers to Gods in a little temple of Orchha, Madhya Pradesh.
Smiling in a Sari factory of Rajasthan
Sri Maitresa Sharma was a 28 years old Sadhu from Banauli, Bihar. When he died, his brother decided he would come to Sonepur to do the ceremony and throw the body in the Gandak river on Kartik Purnima day, as a Sadhu can't be cremated. We drove the body in the middle of the river before letting him go.
In the background, a fisherman and Kali ghats.
Most of the Hindu people of North India visit the Ganga river in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, at important times of their lives, like a marriage, a birth or a death, to bathe in the river and cleanse themselves for a new beginning. Now the photo shows the office of a Panda, so each family has a chosen Panda, you can say a family accountant. Whenever anyone from the family goes to Haridwar they go to their family Panda and get their visit registered in his record books along with details like name and number of people visiting, occasion, date etc. So these records are kept across generations with the same auditor's family. The volume of books look intimidating but they have a neat system of maintaining records and classifying them into house, street, locality and city levels.
On the occasion of the Ram & Sita wedding in Orchha, women are applying fresh cow dung paste on the pavement in front of their house.
Waiting in Chengalpattu for the Chennai train, this kid is watching me from his hammock next to his mother
Keta Bendesar preparing "Chai" in her kitchen in the village of Ludiya, Great Rann of Kutch.
Women chatting in front of their house in Orchha, a nice little village of Madhya Pradesh.
Pilgrims on the road from Tiruvanamalai to Tirupati. They were ready to walk the entire distance, about 200km.
A Jaïn Sadvis entering the Shri Adishwara temple in Satrunjaya (Place of Victory). Palitana. One of Jaïnism's holiest pilgrimage sites. 863 temples and 3000 steps to reach the 600 meters hilltop.
A sadhu resting in front of a little temple in Orchha.
Sisters playing in front of their home in a slum of Ahmedabad..
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