India, people. Part 2 (40 photos)

The second part of a selection of photographs from India. Your attention is invited to the kings of quarters, favelas, children, a barber shop, a construction site, girls, pigeons without love, and even one accident!

1) The boy in the first photo lives with his family in an abandoned temple in Orcha. He has something with the whites of his eyes, but I don't know what kind of disease it is.

2) Children play in the slums of West Varanasi.

3) Cafe opposite Amber Fort, near Jaipur. The boy works in a cafe with his father and grandfather. Family business.

4) Near the Hindu temple in Varanasi.

5) Varanasi, on one of the ghats.

6) A very poor (even for India) village on the outskirts of Jaisalmer.</p >

7) Vredina from Udaipur.

8) Khajuraho. We cycled through the East and South group of temples. We were followed by a flock of children. Some were on bicycles, the rest ran alongside, I carried one on a frame. When I drove him around the village, everyone looked at the little one with respect and admiration, I think he will talk about his triumph for a long time.

9) Amritsar. Attention, the blonde on the right is walking with a local! This is a unique phenomenon.

10) Jain temple in Khajuraho.

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12) Amritsar. The line of Sikh pilgrims on the bridge to the Golden Temple.

13) Girl in line.

14) Khajuraho. The king of the district in a stylish leather jacket.

15) The child is persistent and demands 10 rupees.

16) Jaipur. One of three accidents I've seen in almost a month in India. The rickshaw lost control and overturned. The policeman immediately rushed to help. In India, they drive very chaotically, no one even thinks to give way to pedestrians, there are no visible traffic rules, but there are almost no accidents either. Driving is on the left, thanks to Britain.

17) Grandfather in the Red Fort, Delhi.

18) Jaipur. Note to art historians - the author did not put any Freudian overtones into this work!

19) Varanasi, 31 December. In India, winter is not as warm as it is commonly thought.

20) This is not the Taj Mahal that girls dream of. View from the park from the other side of the river.

21) A Sikh in Amritsar. Sikhism is a separate religion, the Golden Temple in Amritsar is the main shrine and object of pilgrimage for the Sikhs. Sikhs make up only 1.5% of India's population, but that's, for a minute, 1.5 million people. I liked them the most in India - the kindest, most bearded and the eyes of all Sikhs sparkle just like this man

22) Construction is carried out manually, cranes and equipment are not needed when there are so many people.

23) In Jaipur.

24) A little beggar in Varanasi.

25) Agra, on the other side of the river opposite the Taj Mahal.

26) Indian girls are incredibly beautiful and very big-lipped. But there is no transitional stage - there are beautiful little girls and flabby tired women (there are exceptions). The girls were not seen. Apparently, all beauty and harmony end with the birth of the first child (usually this happens at the age of 15-18). Only children, worries, a husband under hashish and lips, of course, remain.

27) Residents of an abandoned temple in Orcha. Their dad was hanging around nearby.

28) Adult women flatly refuse to be filmed. I shot this girl in the Red Fort, Delhi, using the sudden headshot tactic. The next moment after the picture, she began to protest and resent, but it was too late, the card went to the photo tapes.

29) Trishaw.

30) Jaisalmer

31) This family is a symbol of the whole of India - poor, but incredibly happy.</ p>

32) Children from shacks in Amritsar. The boy has the so-called "wolf mouth".

33) Musicians at the Golden Temple, Amritsar.

34) Amritsar. If somewhere far from the tourist trails you were spotted by a group of children, it means that now there will be a carnival. They are very cool and funny, they ask them to take pictures, they like to shake hands. These children were hanging out near some stage, apparently it was preparation for a concert or other event.

35) Khajuraho, one of the temples of the Eastern group. Do you think there is a lot of garbage here? This is the norm for India, nothing out of the ordinary. There is simply nowhere to put garbage. In each city, I saw at best 2 trash cans near tourist places. One gets the impression that the government is generally indifferent to this problem. Caring for the environment is the lot of developed countries, where everyone already has food, Wi-Fi and moleskins.

36) This young entrepreneur on the Varanasi waterfront spent 30 minutes of his business time to persuade us to buy flowers and clear karma. Then he just asked for money. They are all unrealistically stubborn. If you refused a profitable commercial offer 4 times, this is not a reason not to ask you for the fifth time. Such qualities do not develop from a good life, otherwise you cannot survive.

37) In Varanasi, advertisements and signs to restaurants and guesthouses are painted on the walls in the Old City . Nice color scheme and great typography. Signposts help you find starting points in the labyrinths of small streets.

38) Jaipur, evening. Barbers wait for customers and drink tea with milk (masala tea). Coffee is very rare, in vending machines, tea without milk is only for tourists in selected places. I understand that for religious or caste reasons, shaving oneself is an unacceptable stage of social decline. Everyone shaves in barber shops or just on the streets with freelance barbers. In Europe, they also once provided such services, but then, due to the threat of AIDS infection, people were forbidden to shave.

39) Enlightened grandfather in Pushkar.

40) In Jaipur, not far from the City Palace, there is a place where they sell grain. Behind the sellers are on duty armies of pigeons. Some people buy grain and start throwing money away.