Kumbha Mela
2001 Photo Gallery - Page 1 |
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The photos below were taken on January 8, 2001, the day before the official beginning of the Kumbha Mela. |
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Palmists and astrologers of all kinds are here, there and everywhere. |
Tony paid Rs8 for lunch here. Exchange rate: $1=Rs45 |
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..and he passed away early this morning with his wife full of grief, his two young daughters (not seen in photograph) inconsolable. 45 is too young to die. |
Eating and tending her two little children, less than 15 yards from the edge of the tip. Meanwhile members of her family a little further down are desperately trying to convert garbage into cash. |
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| Should we thank or hate the man who invented plastic? If filling up the sack from the tip was stage one, this is stage two. Sorting out high value from low value plastic. | Like the giant panda that cannot afford to stop eating, work must go on and on even amidst the first Great Mela of the Millenium. |
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