The researcher warned us to take everything told us by the Doms and their assistants with a grain of salt. They said that, as part of the cremation ritual at the Manikarnika Ghat, the chief mourner would have a complete shave before the proceedings could start. This man was having his full beard shorn in […]
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sari drying
Back to the Ganges, and lines and triangles and circles and saris. A woman gives orders to someone off-scene while she holds out a sari to dry in the fierce mid-morning sun along the River Ganges in mid Feb 2013. Shot on a faulty Leica M4 with a 50mm Collapsible Summicron for which the […]