It has been a long time since I visited any new place and living in an urban concrete jungle gets on my soul after a while. This weekend we visited my brother-in-law and sister’s place. We had a great time with them and their one year old terror, my lovely niece. For a rare change Sesha was driving and my elder nephew was with him in the front seat where they were debating the relative merits of Hindi and Tamil pronunciations! Left to my own devices I as usual started taking photographs, the only change being I was doing it from a moving car.
I was clicking pictures at random, trying to capture whatever caught my fancy at the moment. It was a Sunday and the roads were relatively empty. After capturing many blurred images I suddenly started noticing a pattern.
There were so many people on the sidewalks! I noticed it very clearly maybe because I was looking for things to record on my camera. Otherwise we have taken the same road so many times and they at the best remain a blurr for me.
I wonder how much they make in day, what are their dreams?
The pavement is a home for so many even now!
They seem to be so much at ease even on the dusty roadside. I hope these lovely flowers add some color to their lives too!
Almost every 50 meter or even less, I encountered some kind of an attempt to earn a livelyhood! And all this in our capital city of New Delhi or fast developing region known as the NCR.
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On my way back to Delhi ISBT from my most recent trip from lansdowne,i saw the big flyover that connects to ISBT and to my surprize i saw people sleeping on flyover sidewalk streched from end to end.There were more than 1000 for sure and it easily streched atleast half a kilometre and I wondered that we have this India that coexists with the young engineers who are paid a several thousand dollars(and they have no idea what to do with that money) .How much disparity we have in this land , but that’s the way things are…
Sid, there is the other side staring right in our face at every traffic red light …Thanks a lot for stopping by.
They say a picture speaks more than a thousand words… well.. indeed its true… Say NCR and what picture comes to mind – Malls..BPO’s..young Gen X junta… There is another side of the coin too… your pics show that…
Thank you Alka, Cuckoo and Emma, for your kind words.
Nice post; lovely pictures and thoughts…
Nice pictures Mridula,Reminds me of my Delhi trips.
It’s a very good write up. I am gland that you find human sea and its complex nature out of ordinary day to day life. Keep it up.