Mobility Issues

Transporting festival paraphernalia to and from the temple.

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Picture taken in Fort Cochin 

Inside The World Of Fashion

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Picture taken in Cochin 

Factory Acts

Scenes from a rubber factory in the Koottickal hills, Kerala.

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The pungent tang of latex, combined with dramatic contrasts of light and shade, made our visit strangely powerful.
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Threewheeling..

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Picture taken in Fort Cochin

The Leaf Sweeper

A leaf sweeper fixes his broom.
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Picture of the leaf-sweeper beside a pile of burning leaves, taken in Fort Cochin .

The Human Chain

Women labourers form a human chain, raising concrete to the top floor of a construction site.
Such building projects invariably use poor, itinerant women from adjoining states, rather than cranes.
They are cheaper.
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Picture taken in Fort Cochin.

The Sandman

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Picture of boys sanding wooden pallets, taken in Fort Cochin.

The Cobbler’s Tale

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And, if you have thirty-five minutes to spare, I commend this little gem of a documentary:

View this movie at cultureunplugged.com

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Picture taken in Palace Road, Fort Cochin

Northern Exposure: Part 2

Light work.
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Picture taken at Humayun’s tomb, Delhi, during a tour of northern India.

Saturday’s Child

Saturday’s child works hard for a living
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Monday’s child is fair of face
Tuesday’s child is full of grace
Wednesday’s child is full of woe 
Thursday’s child has far to go
Friday’s child is loving and giving
Saturday’s child works hard for a living.

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Picture taken in an “open-all-hours” photographic studio and printers, Kunnumpuram, Cochin.