by Geoff | Jun 21, 2015 | India
It is customary to hang ‘clouties’ at fairy wells as an offering to either bring healing or wish fulfillment. As the offering weathers and erodes so healing occurs or wishes materialise. At some fairy wells, chapels were constructed, depicting a Christian...
by Geoff | May 4, 2015 | India
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by Geoff | May 4, 2015 | India
Four or five train loads of 60 containers ( locally called racks ) arrive at Kashi Station, just outside of Varanasi, each week. Each ‘rack’ weighs 70 tons. Some 200 workers are employed on a daily basis to unload the trains and to fill lorries which...
by Geoff | May 4, 2015 | India
A series of portraits of people from Kolkata has been uploaded as a gallery. The photographs were taken in and around the Flower Market, Kalighat and Tollygunge and therefore within a ‘stone’s throw’ of the river Ganges. All were taken with full...
by Geoff | Apr 19, 2015 | India
Nimtala is a region of Kolkata adjacent to the Ganges river. Upstream from the Howrah Bridge and behind the always smoking Cremation Ghats are a community of people which live either side of the Kolkata Circular Railway line. The conditions here have been described as... by Geoff | Mar 11, 2015 | India
The traditional Hindu practice of cremating bodies assumes a greater level of finality and reverence in Varanasi than perhaps anywhere else in India. Recognised as the ‘city of Shiva’ the whole city is spiritually considered a ‘cremation area’ though in practice...
