23 September 2010

Two smiles


This is not an amazing photograph. But I like it because it captures something quite rare - an unadulterated smile on the streets of south Delhi. These two were beaming. I can only imagine what news they had just heard that would lift their spirits so. Maybe they had just got engaged. Maybe they'd just found out they were having triplets. Maybe they were just ecstatically in love. But in a city where dour expressions are the norm on the street, where weary travellers battle congestion and horns and dust and the rest, these two positively shone. I like to think the protected sign was there for them, to keep them safe and to keep their happiness alive.

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