Durga

Behind my home is a makeshift shelter under which loads of craftsmen have been toiling for months to create these phenominal statues in time for October's Durga Puja, the biggest festival in Kolkata's calander. This shot is of Durga before she goes off to be painted. The statues are made from straw.

Snakes & Ladders

August 24th 2008
So, August. Well that was that I guess; we’re a few bombs, an impeachment and an Olympics Games ‘richer’, but here in Thakurpukur, the world is a little less hard-nosed and really there is thankfully very little drama to talk about. I guess there comes a point, and indeed that point has come, when things become very ‘everyday’. I suppose what I’m saying is that what follows is very lik ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more

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