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Are these signs of something?
 Well, not all of India is a high-tech paradise.
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 You gotta love a place that will serve a child a beer. |
 Finally, someone tells it like it is. If your survive your night at the Hotel Dhoom, you get a free camel ride. |
 Hey, tourists can't read. |
 Whatever you do, do not fall asleep in the park hearby this place. |
 I have no idea what this is all about. I don't think of Albuquerque as a fishing hotspot. |
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People and places
 India is actually very fertile, and rice fields spread across many areas.
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 After getting a lift on the tractor, the workers insisted I take a shot of the driver. |
 A future heart-breaker. |
 My studly guide in the lion reserve. Ladies, as far as I know he's single. |
 My guide's not-so-studly cousin. |
 This little guy was not really sure what the camera thing was all about. |
 Siblings in a Gujarat village. |
 Mother and child, Gujarat. |
 The cows know they have ultimate authority. |
 A street band in Chennai. As far as I can tell they rent themselves out to perform at funerals. |
 Children sleeping in a train station in Behar state. You can not go into any train station anywhere in the country at night without having to walk over sleeping bodies. |
 Ganesh, the beloved Hindu god, is everywhere. |
 Hanuman, the monkey god. He seems to smite a lot. |
No matter where you go in India, you gotta deal with crap. Often literally.
 Just like ancient artists signed their cave paintings with handprints... |
 Very efficiently made wedges of buffalo dung, hopefully used as fuel. |
 Some don't bother to be so aesthetic with their dried dung. |
 My last photo from India. This toilet combines the western need to sit on a lid (raised in this shot) with the Indian need to straddle a hole. I tended to switch between the two, depending on the mood. The blue cup? Fill it with water and use in place of toilet paper. Oh, your left hand plays a role in this, too. |
