Meanwhile in New Delhi

THIS is what severe pollution looks like!

Unravel

Let's Make Some Bricks

The Longest Train in India

Indian Railways train #15906, the Dibrugarh-Kanyakumari Vivek Express, travels 4,273km as it winds its way from the north-eastern corner of Assam to the southernmost tip of mainland India, an 85-hour journey which gives it the prestigious title of the longest train in India, by both time and distance.

Cast in India Trailer

Meanwhile in India... I Have Seen This First Hand!

Chittagong Bangladesh - lucrative ship breaking industry

Unravel

When people in the West throw their clothes away, their cast-offs often go on a journey east, across the oceans, to India’s industrial interior. In her film Unravel, Meghna Gupta traces a humanizing path through this little-known phase of the global supply chain.

Americans Try Indian Snacks For The First Time

India’s ‘Untouchables’ Are Still Being Forced to Collect Human Waste by Hand

The practice of forcing low-caste people in Indian communities to remove accumulated human waste from latrines is continuing despite legal prohibitions and must be stopped, says a leading advocacy group.


In a report released Monday, the New York City–based Human Rights Watch (HRW) detailed the practice of “manual scavenging” — the collecting of excrement from latrines by hand. The job is done by those considered to be of the lowest birth. These Dalits, or untouchables, often face threats of violence, eviction and withheld wages if they attempt to leave the trade.

That's One Way To Do It

Welcome to the Traffic Capital of the World

 

I am in a tiny steel cage attached to a motorcycle, stuttering through traffic in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In the last ten minutes, we have moved forward maybe three feet, inch by inch, the driver wrenching the wheel left and right, wriggling deeper into the wedge between a delivery truck and a rickshaw in front of us.

Up ahead, the traffic is jammed so close together that pedestrians are climbing over pickup trucks and through empty rickshaws to cross the street. Two rows to my left is an ambulance, blue light spinning uselessly. The driver is in the road, smoking a cigarette, standing on his tiptoes, looking ahead for where the traffic clears. Every once in awhile he reaches into the open door to honk his horn.

India Has A Problem With People Sh*tting In Public...

I'm not sure this is going to help! 

Here is the Website: 

The disappearing tribe of India's letter writers

 

For centuries, professional letter writers have helped millions of illiterate Indians but many have long disappeared from the cities - but not in Delhi, where one man claims to be the last letter writer left in the country's capital.

Asia Photo Dump

Indian Vendor Greeting And Blessing For Good Business

Indian Factory: Stainless Steel Bowls & Pots

India and China, Besieged by Air Pollution

 

Various recent studies and data suggest that air quality in Delhi is worse than in Beijing, though India’s air pollution problems do not get nearly as much attention on the world stage as those of Beijing. One study shows that Indians have the world’s weakest lungs. The World Health Organization says India has the world’s highest rate of death caused by chronic respiratory diseases, and it has more deaths from asthma than any other nation.



 

Indian Photo Flood: Part 1

India Photo Flood: Part 2