Spotted in the Crowd

Women power

Author aurovrata Date February 10, 2014

Spotted at a recent rally…there is a general sense of being fed up with...

Scrambling for the train!

Spotted in the Crowd

Labour

Children of brick makers, helping their parents (Photo, LearnSoc.org)

Hard work pulling heavy loads for a pittance, competing against truck owners, these men often lease the cart from its owner, having to eek out a living from next to nothing. (Photo, Simon Steinberger)

Some men just never give up, such as this man who should be ripe for retirement and yet continue their daily labour come rain or heat

India is still a country where manual labour comes extremely cheap, and one comes across some heart rendering images of men and women, and sadly children too, labouring strenuouslyto survive. A small prayer to all these men, women and children on this day that their efforts may be valorised and their lives see better days to come.

Spotted in the Crowd

One man forest

More than 30 years ago, a teenager named Jadav “Molai” Payeng began planting seeds along a barren sandbar near his birthplace in India’s Assam region….

Spotted in the Crowd

Saree shopping

Author aurovrata Date January 3, 2014

Saree is the national dress, a long single piece of cloth that beautifully drapes...

Spotted in the Crowd

Photo Opp!

Spotted in the Crowd

Recycling paint

Paint chips as crushed into a fine powder to be recycled into paint. Dharavi slum in Mumbai is home to a large number of recyclers, who turn the city’s waste into reusable products.

Spotted in the Crowd

Royal spot

Spotted in the Crowd

Head in the sand

A yogi demonstrating his powers of…?

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Indian Standar Time?

Women power

Scrambling for the train!

Labour

One man forest

Saree shopping

Photo Opp!

Recycling paint

Royal spot

Head in the sand