Bananas. Madurai
28.9.09

A man selling Banana leaves on the market in Madurai. They will be used as eco friendly plates around town.
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Prayer. Madurai

A woman praying inside the Meenakshi temple in Madurai

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Diving. Tiruvannamalai.
17.9.09

Kids diving into the sacred tank of the Arunachaleswar Shiva temple in Tiruvannamalai.
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Fisherman. Tiruchendur
23.3.09

A fisherman on the beach in Tiruchendur.
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Cotton. Ayampattai
20.3.09

Workers wringing out cotton before the dyeing process in a workshop of Ayampattai.
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Weaver. Ayampattai
18.3.09

A weaver on his loom in Ayampattai

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Warp. Ayampattai
17.3.09

Weavers preparing their cotton warp in Ayampattai.

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Weaver. Ayampattai

A weaver in his workshop in the little village of Ayampattai, near Kanchipuram.

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Spinning. Kailasa

A spinner in the village of Kailasa, near Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu.
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Dyeing. Ayampattai

Tamil men dyeing cotton in a worksop of Ayampattai, a village of Tamil Nadu.
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Bus Stand. Mamallapuram

Waiting for the evening bus in Mamallapuram.
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Boat. Tuticorin

A boat construction in Tuticorin, on the Coromandel Coast.
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Shrine. Chennai
5.2.09

A Tamil woman showing me the shrine installed in the courtyard of her house in Chennai.
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Colors. Chennai
4.2.09

A little girl in a suburb of Chennai. She just had her hair cut, to heal it some turmeric powder is applied on it. It's suposed to keep some harmful bacteria away from the body.
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Workers. Chennai
19.12.08

Sleepy workers in a street of Chennai. A colorful setting.
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A couple. Gangaikondacholapuram Temple
11.12.08

A couple walking in front of the temple in Gangaikondacholapuram, one of the most beautiful one in Tamil Nadu.
It was built by King Rajendra Chozhan, son of Raja Raja Chozhan, who built the Brihadeeswara Temple at Tanjavur.

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Offering. Madurai. Tamil Nadu

A woman doing an offering to a Goddess of fertility inside the beautiful Meenakshi temple in Madurai

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Vanitha. Coonoor.
10.12.08

Vanitha picking up tea in a field outside Coonoor

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Friendship. Madurai
30.11.08

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Winnowing. Kothattai
16.9.08

A woman winnowing under the eyes of her husban in a village of Tamil Nadu.

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Begging. Chidambaram

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Super Shop. Madurai
12.9.08

A saree shop in Madurai

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Colorful Truck. Madurai

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Betting. Ooty
11.9.08

Indians betting at the racetrack in Ooty.

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Dhobis Wallah. Madurai
10.9.08

A Dhobi working on the banks of the River Vaigai.

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Tea. Coonoor
8.9.08

A tea plantation in Coonoor

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Dhobis. madurai
4.9.08

Dhobi wallahs on the river in Madurai

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Chatting. Ooty
3.9.08

Colorful women chatting in Ooty

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Beauty. Chennai

A beauty in a slum of Chennai

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Working. Madurai
2.9.08

A woman working inside the Meenakshi temple in Madurai

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Dhobies. Madurai

A dhobi working in Madurai

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Race course. ooty

A Indian at the race course in Ooty. The Madras Race club moves every summer from Chennai to Ooty during the summer holidays.

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Betting. Ooty
30.8.08

Betting at the horse race in Ooty, in the Nilgiris Hills

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Begging. Tanjore
25.8.08

A man begging at the entrance of the temple in Tanjore

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Race Day. Ooty
20.8.08

MP Prem, on the left, a jockey from Chennai paying respect to gods, ( Jesus is also there! ) before a racing day in Ooty.
He spend may and june racing there, as the entire Madras Race Club is moving there.
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Aravan. Khottathai

An Aravani making a puja to Aravan, the idol seen in the backgground, god of the Aravanis. Few temples dedicated to Aravan can be seen in India.
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Sunday Afternoon. Madurai
19.8.08

A woman strolling around in an empty Madurai on a sunday afternoon.

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Dhobis. Madurai.

A Dhobi working near he river in Madurai

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Temple. Chidambaram
18.8.08

families inside the temple in Chidambaram

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Dhobi. Madurai
17.8.08

Dhobis working alongside the river in Madurai

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Traffic. Chennai

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A coffe Shop. Tanjore

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Juice. Chennai
15.8.08

Pressing sugar cane in a street of Chennai.

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Dr Ambedkar. Chennai
15.5.08

A man posing for me in front of his hut, near he river in Chennai. On the wall of his house, a painting of Dr Ambedkar, a very well know advocate of the Dalit cause and a father of the Indian constitution.

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At the well. Chennai
10.5.08

Tamil women at the well in front of their huts alongside the river in Chennai. Adaily task.

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The train from Erode Chennai

The nigh train from Erode got to Chennai. all the blankets, sheets and cushions have to be changed. A coolie is watching me seriously.

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Dhanam . Chennai. Tamil Nadu
9.5.08

Dhenam, an Aravani (Hijra) is helping Tharramal during her morning bath in her house in Chennai. Aravani are transsexuals, known as the third sex in India. They just became full citizen last April. Now they are legally recognized as a third gender and can benefit from it.

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Silk. Tiruvanamalai
2.4.08

A pilgrim in her beautiful sari at the entrance of the temple in Tiruvanamalai

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Praying Hanuman. Madurai
1.4.08

Praying Lord Hanuman in the beautiful Meenakshi temple in Madurai

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Wood Market. Karaikudi

Farmers leaving the wood market in Karaikudi. I can't wait to travel back there, the Chettinad food being one of the best in India.
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Chatting. Karaikudi
31.3.08

Tamil women chatting in front of a beautiful house in Karaikudi.
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Watermelons. Mamallapuram
29.3.08

Selling Watermelons in a street of Mahaballipuram

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Auroville. Pondichéry

A sweeper in front of the "Auroville" shop. Auroville is an utopic city built near Pondicherry.
Auroville was founded in 1968 by Mirra Alfassa, a yoga leader known as The Mother. She was a disciple of Sri Aurobindo, a yoga guru who believed that human evolution had not finished. The Mother believed that this experimental community would evolve humans by helping to bring into being a more advanced consciousness called the supramental. The Indian government endorsed the township, and in 1966, UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural organization, passed a resolution endorsing the project
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Bags. Madurai
28.3.08

a man making bags in a street of Madurai.
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Stairway to heaven. Tanjore

A Tamil woman coming down a stairway of the temple in Tanjore

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Saris. Tiruchendur

A pilgrim hiding beneath her drying sari on the beach in Tiruchendur. The last one of a series..

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Family. Vaitheeswarankoil

A family of pilgrims having lunch inside the temple of Vaitheeswarankoil. A beautiful village.

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Toy Train. Ooty
27.3.08

A Tamil woman inside the toy train going to Ooty in the Nilgiris hills of Tamil Nadu, hopefully I'll be there soon..
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Prayer. Kumbakonam
25.3.08

A family praying together in a temple in Kumbakonam

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Rickshaw. Kanchipuram

A rickshaw zooming by in Kanchipuram

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Offerings. Madurai
18.3.08

A woman doing an offering to a goddess of fecondity in Madurai.
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Well. Rameshwaram
14.3.08

A young girl at a well inside the temple of Rameswaram.
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Veena. Thiruvaiyaru
19.9.07

A Student playing Veena in the Thiruvaiyaru school of Music.

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CHITRAI. Madurai

Some pilgrims in the streets of Madurai during the Chitrai festival. They were going down to the river Cavery.

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Maria. Pitchavaran

As I was walking the 15km between Pitchavaran and Chidambaran, this Hindu call me inside his house.. He was painting Marias for the people to sell in Velanganni, a place where there is a big catholic cathedral. Strange thing to see ...

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Train. Pamban

On the bridge going from the continent to Rameshwaram. A beautiful place

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Weavers. Ayampattai. Tamil Nadu
15.9.07

Weavers at the loom in Ayampattai

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Dyeing. Ayampattai

A couple of workers dyeing cotton in Ayampattai

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The Warp. Ayampattai
4.6.07

Women preparing the warp in a little town 20km away from kanchipuram.
Kanchipuram is famous for some of the most beautiful Sarees woven there.

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Marigold. Madurai
11.5.07

Freshening up marigold inside the flower market in Madurai

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On the Road . Tiruvanamalai
2.5.07

Pilgrims on the road between Tiruvanamalai and Tirupati. A long walk for them.

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Vadai. Tiruchendur
30.4.07

A man selling Vadai, a real good specialty of Tamil Nadu.

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Hanuman. Madurai
29.4.07

A man praying Hanuman, the Monkey God, in the beautiful Meenakshi temple in Madurai.
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Train ride. Ooty
28.4.07

A passenger looking outside his train compartment on his way from Ooty to Coonoor. A beautiful ride in the middle of the tea estates of the Nilgiri Hills.

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Breakfast. Madurai
23.3.07

A Breakfast place in a street of Madurai. Masala Dosa, vadai.... yummy. And a kid running to school in his uniform.
Such a great city.

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Bicycle. Madurai

A man repairing a wheel in his shop. A colorful scene as usual in India

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Ayappas. Madurai

Ayappas pilgrims getting blessing from Meenakshi the elephant at the entrance of Sri Meenakshi temple in Madurai.

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Students. Tiruparankundram

Brahmin students arriving inside their classroom inside the temple in Tiruparankundram

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Reflection. Tirunelveli

Reflection of a woman...against a bus....

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Motherhood. Kumbakonam

A woman and her son, at the entrance of the Nageshwara temple in Kumbakonam

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Ice cream seller. Velanganni.
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Puja. Madurai

Some women performing a Puja inside the Meenakshi temple in Madurai.

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Flower market. Kumbakonam.

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The acrobat. Madras

A boy having a lot of fun on Marina beach in Chennai

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Morning. Madurai

A woman cleaning in front of her house in a small street in Madurai

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Workers. Kailasha

Workers in Kailasha, a small village near Kanchipuram loading a truck with the dust coming from the rice after it was washed...

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Weaver. Ayampattai

A weaver in his workshop

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Dying Cotton. Ayampattai

Two workers in the small village of Ayampatta preparing cotton for the dying.

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A grand mother and her grand daughter by the road. Ammampuram

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Sculptor. Swamimalai

A sculptor in the small town of Swamimalai in Tamil Nadu.

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Saris.Kanchipuram

Drying up saris in the Varadaraja Swami temple in Kanchipuram

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Namaste. Madurai

Saluting god inside the Meenakshi temple in Madurai

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Studying . Tiruparankundram.

Students in a Bhramin school inside the temple in Tiruparankundram.

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Diving. Tiruvanamalai

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A weaver. Ayampattai

A weaver working in his home. He is working, watching TV, and Baby sitting as well.

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On the road . Tiruvanamalai

An image of pilgrims on their way to Tirupati. Original images, no cropping... On my last week in India, some pilgrims I met 70km outside Tiruvanamalai on their way to the huge temple of Tirupati in the neighbouring state of Andhra Pradesh.
They still had more than 120 km to walk.. Drying up their close while walking..couldn't resist..

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Praying Hanuman. Madurai
12.12.06

Another one, same setting, different angle and shot this year

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Praying Hanuman. Madurai

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Ganesh and the Rickshaw. Chennai

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Mourning. Kanchipuram

A family mourning a dead relative in Kanchiipuram

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Puja. Kumbakonam

A puja inside the Kumbeshwara temple in Kumbakonam

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Sea. Dhanushkodi
11.12.06

A landscape the way I like to shoot them, without perspective.
This Dhanushkodi, a nice place, at the tip of the Rameshwaram peninsula.

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Dancing. Mamallapuram

This was shot during a dance festival in Mamallapuram.
I liked the movement of those dancers..

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Each principal character introduces himself or herself on the stage with a small composition of dance and song, specially designed to identify the character. The Different themes of the dance are taken from Indian mythology.

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Splash !!. Kumbakonam

in the sacred tank

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Rice. Vaitheeswarankoil

An older woman working in a rice mill a few kilometers of the nice town of Vaiteeswarankoil.
The town is famous for all the astrologers, cards readers exercising there..
I Liked the light there..

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A rice mill. Vaiteeswarenkoil

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Water. Kanchipuram

Water is precious in Tamil Tadu when the monsoon hasn't been so good like in 2003.

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Abstract. kid. Kumbakonam

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Bubbleman. Vellore
7.12.06

Shot during a moslem holiday in Vellore.

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Kalakshetra school. Chennai
3.12.06

Students training in Baratha Nathyam.
Founded in 1936, by Rukmini Devi Arundale and her husband Dr George Arundale, Kalakshetra has played a significant part in the revival of Indian art and crafts, especially the dance form of Bharatnatyam.
Kalakshetra (which means 'holy place of art'), is situated on a sprawling 100 acre campus at Adyar. Students enjoy that hard-to-get proximity with greenery and the sea. Today, some of the most respected exponents in the performing arts are products of Kalakshetra.

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Studying. Madras
28.11.06

Inside the Kalakshetra school in Chennai

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Kalakshetra school. Chennai

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Kalakshetra school. Chennai

A Music class

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Shruti Anand , a student at the Kalakshetra school Chennai

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Kalakshetra school. Madras

Baratha Nathyam dancers training in the kalakshetra school in Madras.
If you travel to Madras, you should absolutly spend some time there.

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Baratha Nathyam class. Kalakshetra school. Chennai

Resting a bit...

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Kalakshetra school of dance. Madras

A Baratha Nathyam Class in the Famous Kalakshetra School

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Idlis... Rameshwaram

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Holy water. Alagarkoil temple

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Coffee machine. Mallapuram

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So Sleepy. Mamallapuram

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Vimana ..Tanjore

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Purification.Tiruvappur Muthu Mariyamman Temple

When a loved one falls ill, the family prays to God to heal their child. And when the person is cured,
their family takes them to the temple (usually where the main diety is a Goddess) and makes them lie down
and "offered" to God, this is symbolically meant to say "Thank you Almighty, this loved one has been healed,
we offer her and her good health to you, for without you nothing is possible". A lot of deadly diseases like small pox
have made people over the centuries believe that a lot is not in their hands, and it is only upto God to heal them.
This is a mark of reverence to the Almighty.

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Window cleaning. Vaiteeswarankoil

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Waiting, Egmore train station. Chennai
24.11.06

A mother and her kids waiting for the train on the platform in Egmore sation. Chennai

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Egmore station. Chennai

Women cleaning up the Station in Chennai/ Madras

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Harvesting. Tirumayam

In a small village bypassed by the tourists groups. A lovely place

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Cow Dung. Kanchipuram

Cow dung being stuck on a wall to dry up at the sun, then to be used as a fuel.

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Spinning Cotton. Kailasha

In a smaill village on the outskirts of Kanchipuram

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Sculptor. Swamimalai

A Brahmin working on a sculpture in swamimalai, a village where you'll find plenty of workshops dedicated to sculpture

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Temple Going. Alagarkoil

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Kumbeshwara temple. Kumbakonam

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Temple life. Trichy

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Framing, Kumbakonam

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Mermaid. Mamallapuram

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Well inside the Ramanathaswami temple. Rameshwaram.

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Wood market. Karaikudi

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Vadai. Tiruchendur
17.11.06

A man selling Vadai, a real good specialty of Tamil Nadu.

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Baratha Nathyam. Mamallapuram

Another dancer in front of "Arjuna's penance" in Mamallapuram. The penance relates to the mythical story of the Ganges..It's an incredible "bas relief" carved in a huge rock above the village, one of the best I have ever seen.

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Kuchipudi. Mamallapuram

This was shot during a dance festival in Mamallapuram.
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Ganambal's funeral. Kanchipuram

A funeral the family ask me to shoot in Kanchipuram/.
Ganambal , the woman didn't have any sons, so her husband had to do all the ceremonial

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Funeral ceremonial. Kanchipuram

Ganambal's husband doing the ceremonial.

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Funeral. Kanchipuram

I was asked to take pictures of this funeral by the husband of the defunt woman, Ganambal. They will carry the body of Ganambal to the cremation place. Only the men will go. The husband, having no son, will be in front, walking on Ganambal's saris being thrown in front of him.

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Brahmin. Madurai. Tamil Nadu

The Brahmin leading the gods, Meenakshi and Sundareshwara, outside the Meenakshi temple.
Shot during the "Chitrai" festival. A very long pose and a flash..

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Plates. Madurai
15.11.06

Banana leaves are used in southern India as plates. Ecological.

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Begging. madurai

Inside the Meenakshi temple in Madurai

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School. Tiruparankundram.

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Water again. Madras

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Beauty. Kanchipuram
14.11.06

Walking from Kanchipuram, I stopped to have a "Chai"..
This is the daughter of the Chai "man", not yet totally awake
and so beautiful

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Goddess. Mamallapuram.

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Begger. Meenakshi temple. Madurai
13.11.06

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Deep sleep. Erode

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Shampoo. Erode

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Happy Child. Tiruvanamalai

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Sarasvati temple. Gingee.

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Temple. Tiruchendur

Tiruchendur is one of the six Aarupadai veedu shrines of Murugan, enshrining Senthilandavar.

It is one of the most visited shrines in Tamilnadu, and is located on the seashore in the southern
part of the state near Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari.

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A sheperd. Sittanavasal

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Packing beedis. Tirunelveli

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Blessing. Vaiteeswarankoil

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Chatting. Chidanbaram

A couple chatting inside the beautiful Nataraja ( The dancing Shiva ) temple in Chidambaram.
Late afternoon light. Magnificent sculptures.
A beautiful temple. It's also huge..

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Sacred water. Rameshwaram
12.11.06

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Cows in a rice field. Pitchavaran

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A Well inside the Ramanathaswami temple. Rameshwaram

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Puja on the beach. Rameshwaram

On the beach in Rameshwaram, people doing their morning Puja.
Always nice to witness.

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Wait. Kanchipuram
11.11.06

Some pilgrims from Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh waiting for the temple to open up in Kanchipuram..
They were having a lot of fun...

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Wood market. Karaikudi
10.11.06

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A Nice smile. Tiruvanamalai

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A beggar and some Ayyapas Pilgrims. Madurai

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Tea Plantation. Conoor
9.11.06

A landscape for a change, the only time when I used my 70/200mm is to shoot flat landscape.
Some women working under the supervision of a man, picking up tea in the blue mountains
of Tamil Nadu. This image was shot in a small village at 20km of Conoor. It's beautiful there..

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Laundry . Trichy

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Tea picking, or green on green. Conoor

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Making Puri... Velanganni

A picture taken in a strange town. Velanganni, on the Coromandel coast, is the site of a famous Roman Catholic Basalica
of our Lady of good health. This guy was making Puri, a fried dough, very, very good. You can see some on the right of
the image. You deep it in a "sauce", sambar, or others. Can't wait to have some, even though you mostly find it in
Southern India. On the wall behind, you can see pictures of Ghandi and Vivekananda.

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Biking. Tiruvarur

A street in the small town of Tiruvarur. I took this picture because of "Tata", the brand of cars and
trucks you'll see everywhere in India. I wanted a woman on an Indian bike too. I got a few different
versions of his image. The Thyagararajaswami temple is huge, and colorful
The town is known because on 4th may 1767 the great saint composer Sri Thyagaraja was born in
Tiruvayur in Tanjore districts.Thyagraja was a prodigy who was gifted with melodious voice.

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Coolies. Egmore Station Chennai

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Drying up sarees on the beach. Tiruchendur

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In the train. Madurai - Tanjore

I waited a long time to get this image. One of my personnal favorite.

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On the Road. Tiruvanamalai
8.11.06

An image of pilgrims on their way to Tirupati. Original images, no cropping...
On my last week in India, some pilgrims I met 70km outside Tiruvanamalai on
their way to the huge temple of Tirupati in the neighbouring state of Andhra Pradesh.
They still had more than 120 km to walk..
Drying up their close while walking..couldn't resist..

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Bull Cleaning. Tirumayam

A man cleaning his bull in front of the fortress in Tirumayam.

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Train to Ooty.

Some passengers waiting to go.
Aboard the little train climbing up the blue mountains to reach Ooty.

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Betel spit. Kanchipuram

A woman in the Sri Ekambaranathar temple in Kanchipuram. This woman, after doing her laundry
was waiting for it to dry and spitting betel.. A common scene all over India.
Kanchipuram is one of the 7 sacred cities of India. One of my favorite..
The other cities sacred are Ayodhya, Haridwar, Varanasi, Mathura, Ujjain and Dwarka.

In the Indian sub-continent, the leaves of the betel (piper betle) are used as wrappers for ‘pan’,
a roll of raw spices that are chewed slowly as a digestive and stimulant—a chewing gum substitute

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Life. Kanchipuram
7.11.06

Inside the Varadaraja swami temple, near the sacred tank.

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Colors. Tanjore

Colorful women going up the stairways to the sancto sanctorum in the Brihadishvara temple.

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Smile. Tiruvanamalai

A woman smiling at me when I passed in front of her house
in the beautiful temple city of Tiruvanamalai.

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Sunset in Vaitheeswarankoil
6.11.06

Almost sunset. A little beggar is washing her only clothes in the sacred tank of the Vaitheeswarankoil temple in
Tamil Nadu. The red string she is wearing around her waist is what all children have on, to keep the evil eye away.
The Vaitheeswarankoil temple (koil, or kovil means temple in the Tamil language) is dedicated to Lord Shiva and
his wife Parvati. The gopuram (temple tower) is exquisitely decorated with hundreds of brightly painted deities.
A colourful corridor, as I had never seen before, leads into the main prayer halls.

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Of women and sarees. Tiruchendur

When composing an image, I have a tendency to prefer one without any perspective in it. I like the flat colours.
In Tiruchendur, on the southern coast of Tamil Nadu, I met a few women who came to the temple to pray to
Murugan. After the ritual bath, on the beach, in front of the majestic and beautiful temple they needed to dry up
their colourful saris. I couldn't resist but to portray them the way I like.Tiruchendur, in the far south of Tamil Nadu,
is renowned among Murugan devotees everywhere as one of the greatest centres of the Lord Aru Padai Veedugal’s,
literally 'Six Battle Camps'. Indeed, it is here that Murugan and his deva-sena, or army of celestials, confront and
vanquish the titan Surapadma and his demonic horde. This struggle is annually re-created at Tiruchendur on the
sixth day of Skanda Sashti, the 'Six (days) of Skanda'.

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Pilgrims. Tiruvanamalai

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An image of pilgrims on their way to Tirupati. Original images, no cropping...
On my last week in India, some pilgrims I met 70km outside Tiruvanamalai on
their way to the huge temple of Tirupati in the neighbouring state of Andhra Pradesh.
They still had more than 120 km to walk..
Drying up their close while walking..couldn't resist..

Canon EOS 5D ,Canon EF 28-70mm f/2.8L USM

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Praying HANUMAN. Madurai

A woman praying to the monkey god Hanuman inside the magnificent Meenakshi temple in Madurai.
The enormous temple complex is dedicated to Shiva, known here as Sundareshvara and his consort Parvati,
or Meenakshi. The original temple was built by Kulasekara Pandya, but the entire credit for making it as splendid
as it is today goes to the Nayaks. The Nayaks ruled Madurai from the 16th to the 18th century and left a majestic
imprint of their rule in the Meenakshi - Sundareswarar Temple.

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