Spotted in the Crowd

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Spotted in the Crowd

Sharp delivery

Knife sharpeners were a common site a decade back, they are now less visible especially in urban areas. The come round on their cycle and provide sharpening services to small restaurants and households.

Spotted in the Crowd

Happy Diwali / Deepavali

Author aurovrata Date November 3, 2013

Thi is the time of the year when India celebrates Diwali in the north...

Spotted in the Crowd, Videos

The Indian brick-man

Author aurovrata Date May 9, 2013

Amazing ingenuity of manual labourers.

Spotted in the Crowd

Ingenious plaughing

Author aurovrata Date October 7, 2013

Spotted in the Crowd

Scrambling for the train!

Spotted in the Crowd

Stark stork story

Greater Adjutant storks stand by as a boy picks through a landfill (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

Storks have seen their wetlands turned into a dump (Photo: Ritu Raj Konwar)

Daily, 50 trucks dump refuse from the cisty of Guwahati in Assam, NE India (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

A sad reality, as urbanisation takes its toll on the environment. Deerpol Beel in Guwahati i Assam, NE India, a traditional wetland sanctuary for Great Adjutant Storks has been converted into the city’s refuse dump yard.