Spotted in the Crowd

Magic of India

Muslim women taking her son to celebrate Hindu festival where children dress up as Krishna, the flute playing god.

Spotted in the Crowd

Cow beauty treatment?

At Home, On the Road, Spotted in the Crowd

Happy Pongal

Author aurovrata Date January 14, 2014

South Indians celebrate their new year, the festival of the new harvest, out with...

Spotted in the Crowd

Happy Bapu day

Author aurovrata Date October 2, 2013

India celebrates Bapu’s birthday, as Gnadhi is fondly known. Photo credit (Indian Express)

On the Road, Spotted in the Crowd

The Indian FedEx

Dabbawallahs or Tiffinwallahs in the streets of Mumbai. Famous organisation of men (and women too apparently but I have never spotted one) delivering lunch boxes or tiffins as they are called here. The link above will give you an option to invite one these men to give a lecture on their work.

Spotted in the Crowd

Recycling ships

Alang, Gujarath, located in the Gulf of Khambhat, is a ships breaking place. Workers, all men, carry a wire to draw by winch a huge scrap’s piece on the beach. Ships aground, vessels stranded at low tide on the shore. Alang is considered as the biggest scrapyard in the world. Ships are recycled for its metals. (Photo: Didier Ruef)

Shipbreakers at work. Since March this ship has been cut up and dismantled for recycling. The metal rope is attached to large sections that have been cut from the main hull then dragged closer to the shore. Workers wear little protection. They are exposed to toxic waste and oil residue as they break up the sheet metal into pieces.(Photo Sean Smith)