In February 2013 I went to Varanasi in India. I saw this scene as I was walking along the banks of the River Ganges. It was an interesting snippet of life, of a baby having its head shaved by one of the many barbers working this section of the river. The two women accompanying the baby are looking on anxiously as the young man takes a straight razor to the baby’s head. The baby is keeping quite still.
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