The Barbershops Of India...

One of the world's oldest professions is carried out wherever in India. Whether it's on a couple of stones on the road, on a pavement, under a tree, in a hole in a wall, on the beach, a carpark or on the back of a truck, the innovative Indians without the interference of the west's beauracrats simply set up shop anywhere and everywhere there's a beard to trim, a solitary hair to cut, a close shave to be had
or a rupee to be earned.
Such colour, such a way of life.
Necessity dictates. Simplicity rules...

This Beautiful Twenty Five Year Old Indian Woman Has Never Eaten Solid Food. She Lives Off Only Milk Tea And Water...

Beautiful twenty five year old Manju Dharra lives in the small town of Sonipat located near India's capital of New Delhi.
She suffers from Achalasia which causes the cardiac sphincter muscle to remain closed so food cannot pass into her stomach.
She has never eaten solid food and lives on a liquid diet of milk, tea, water and juice.
Surgery would be a solution to her problem but her family cannot afford such medical indulgences so they've made temporary arrangements to suit her needs.
Her parents bought her a cow which provides her with the four or five litres of milk she consumes each day.
She certainly looks healthy.
Perhaps not eating food could become a new diet fad for the western world...

Overloaded Vehicles? Perhaps. Just A Little...

Overloaded. Well just marginally perhaps. In places like India, China and many Asian countries, people are compelled by need to use methods that would be frowned upon in the western world. There'd be traffic infringement officers having a field day handing out fines.
But not here.
Life is harder but more accommodating.
Necessity is the mother of invention and these folk know how to improvise anything to suit their needs and they work hard for a meagre amount of money.
There's many more images of overloaded people and overloaded vehicles but I couldn't fit them all in...

In India's Mumbai, Food To Go Is A 150 Year Old Tradition...

Every day in Mumbai, four thousand men, all dressed in white, transport more than 175,000 lunches across the teeming city.
Every day, as they have since the 1800's when the British colonialists introduced the system to cater for the workers who inundated the city and brought with them their particular local food preferences, the Dabbawallas collect the lunch containers called Tiffens, of food from wives mothers and grandmothers and deliver them to the hungry workers.
Despite the unsophisticated modes of transport used, the lunches evidently always arrive on time with an error rate of only one in sixteen million deliveries.
There wouldn't be another courier company in the world that could boast that success rate.
Have a look here and see how this fast food system caters for the lunch crowd...

Fantasy Becomes A Reality In Jeffrey Bale's World Of Gardens...

One of my favourite places to visit is Jeffrey Bale's World of Gardens.
Jeffrey is a designer and builder of intimate landscapes using stone, mosaic and plants.
He travels regularly and his work is greatly influenced by his journeying around the world.
For years he's been inspired to create a harem in his own garden based on his travels in India and Turkey.
These beautiful photos of Moria and Nagasita in various Odissi dance positions were taken in Jeffrey's garden by Scott Belding.
His fantasy has become a reality.
You might like to take some time out from your reality and visit Jeffrey's fantasy here...