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21 November 2010

Deep fried happiness


I had a great day walking around the old town of Kolkata this weekend. It is impossible to capture the energy and chaotic magnificence of the place - a modest attempt is below. So many friendly people with easy smiles, so many hard toilers with exhaustion showing on their crinkled faces, so much humanity.
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Pink saris drying in an old landowners mansion

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An old building holding legal chambers


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Girl: foyer - in the bowels of Kolkata's legal district

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An Artist's studio in Kolkata - an image of the goddess Durga is emerging from straw and clay

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Watch repairer - Kolkata

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Traffic - Kolkata

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Kids throwing petals on the banks of the Hooghly River

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The keenest laneway cricketer Kolkata has ever seen

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A fellow human being

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Tired out delivery men

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Kolkata flower market

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Rickshaw puller - Kolkata

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9 November 2010

Self portrait

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Close to falling water, another architectural statement about man and his environment

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District of Gentrification


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In this city... people do this


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Falling water in fall

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A Frank Lloyd Wright wall and a swaying branch in afternoon sunlight.

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Leaf. Rock.

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