Photos from India, 2005
part 2

 

 

 

Rockin' rigs were all over, but I think this one in Bombay took the cake.

 

 

 


goat heads and entrails for sale in a Delhi market

 

 

 


hawks around the Jama Masjid in Delhi; I think they house / feed them.

 

 

 


scruffy street puppy, after Holi

 

 

 


monkeys!

 

 

 


I don't understand what this was, but it was an array of
small saucers of milk which cows would come by, lick from,
and break as they stepped all over it. In Varanasi.

 

 

 


loudspeaker car for political parade

 

 

 


produce seller, with great fashion

 

 

 


walk-in lunar calendar (and supposedly eclipse-predictor) in Delhi's Jantar Mantar

 

 

 


market street

 

 

 


putting up movie posters

 

 

 


drummer in political parade

 

 

 


selling color for Holi

 

 

 


One of the neatest things about India is that anything can be a shrine,
be it a huge fancy temple or a little painted rock on the streetcorner.

 

 

 


Yes, they have actual snake charmers in India.

 

 

 


Delhi's Isckon (Hare Krishna) temple had cool architecture, but trippin' Sound & Light Show.
(I don't remember the warriors in the Baghavad Gita having
laser rifles and bat ears... maybe I wasn't reading carefully.)

 

 

 


This is not a refugee camp, it's just a train station.

 

 

 


More fabulous fashion. Best clothes in the world, I swear.

 

 

 


bicycle freight

 

 

 


Jodhpur's blueness and Mehrangarh fort's impenetrability

 

 

 


When bathing & washing in the Ganga, water buffalo become playground equipment.

 

 

 


Nandi and Mini-Me Nandi

 

 

 


traffic in Jaipur

 

 

 


Allahabad has the prettiest cycle rickshaws

 

 

 


A very dignified and intense beggar in Delhi; he really stood out.

 

 

 


creamery acrobatics

 

 

 


this chicken was even more day-glo in real life

 

 

 


The elephant I got a ride on. Cutie, no?

 

 

 


Ganesha shrine