by Geoff | Aug 16, 2017 | India, Kumbh Mela
The alluvial mud plains of the river Ganges allow, for a matter of months, a magical canvas city to be fashioned which attracts up to 100 mllion visitors over its short lifespan. Following the visitors’ departure the river swells...
by Geoff | Aug 27, 2015 | India
More images, mostly unpublished, from the Kumbh Mela at Allahabad 2013. Share... by Geoff | Mar 4, 2013 | India
Crossing the Goddess was eventless. The pontoon bridge stretched out like a slightly twisting snake, the supporting plastic oval bollards elevating the wooden and metal bridge effortlessly above the brown flow, and the water slipped through the gaps without... by Geoff | Mar 3, 2013 | India
The jeep left the bus station and began threading its way through a maelstrom of colour, activity and noise. Rickshaws, motor bikes, animals and people were dodging each other with long practised skill, as our vehicle incredibly found a path through this moving... by Geoff | Feb 23, 2013 | India
The aphorism “Stranger in a Strange Land’ is no idle description of our experiences in India, especially as Heinlein reportedly originally envisaged the story based on Kipling’s The Jungle Book, with the equivalent of Mowgli being raised on a...
