The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Friday 31 January 2014

‘MAYBE, YOU FIND ME STRANGE.’ - ‘NO, I DON’T FIND YOU STRANGE.’

The complete write-up

‘Maybe you find me strange.’ Rahul Gandhi, the interviewee, says. ‘No, I don’t find you strange.’ Arnab Goswami, the interviewer, says, during Rahul Gandhi’s first formal television interviewer after beginning the active political career.

A line during the course of conversation, or the interview, a line repeated to support the viewpoint, a line repeated to help the other lines already spoken during the course of the conversation, the line sums up the ‘politician Rahul Gandhi’ in clear terms.

It tells us something direct, that subtle point about the politician Rahul Gandhi that the nation so desperately wanted to understand. That interest, that necessity to know the politician Rahul Gandhi is fading.

Multiple factors have been responsible for it. Major among them are Rahul’s silence on many issues of national and social importance, Rahul’s delayed and ‘not up to the mark’ act on many issues and the mammoth scale of corruption attributed to the corruption of the Congress party led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.

But still, there is scope left for us to know him, for he is the face of the oldest and the mostly widely spread political outfit of the country. Even if not in office as the prime minister, he, by his position, wields significant power in the country. That applies for Rahul Gandhi and his party being in the opposition in the Parliament as well.

The nation needs to know the politician Rahul Gandhi.

And this line, during the course of the conversation during his first formal television interview tells clearly about who is the ‘politician Rahul Gandhi’.

On points where Rahul says that the interviewer may find ‘Rahul’ strange based on his answers during the conversation gives us a window to look into how Rahul thinks.


‘MAYBE, YOU FIND ME STRANGE.’ - ‘NO, I DON’T FIND YOU STRANGE.’ (III)

Continued from:
‘MAYBE, YOU FIND ME STRANGE.’ - ‘NO, I DON’T FIND YOU STRANGE.’ (II)
http://severallyalone.blogspot.in/2014/01/maybe-you-find-me-strange-no-i-dont_30.html

Then there is an alternative way to look at it, the ‘can also be’ way, on what this line spoken by Rahul Gandhi during his first formal television interview tells us about the politician Rahul Gandhi.

It can also tell us Rahul Gandhi is a mismatch to the political ecosystem of the Congress party as he thinks on high values of a democracy and wants to inculcate the culture in the nation but has not been able to push his ideas further because of the inherent obstacles existent in the work-culture of the Congress party.

If it is so, then it tells us about the fading magnetism of the Nehru-Gandhi family for the Congress politicians, but that is one highly unlikely scenario in the prevailing political circumstances of the country.

If it is so, then it tells us Rahul Gandhi sees an opportunity now to push his agenda further, when the grand old party of India is facing a historically low credibility crisis and other Congress politicians are in no position to raise points of objection.

But these are just the unlikely viewpoints that present an aspect of the Rahul Gandhi persona that suggest what he could have been.

On point of clarity, the most likely and the ‘direct, most possible’ interpretation of Rahul’s ‘may be, you find me strange’, in the prevailing circumstances, is - Rahul Ganndi is ‘still misreading the social and political reality of India and his family’s and Congress’ positioning in all this’.


©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/ 

WHY FEAR DEATH WHEN..

My reflections on life – in quotes (LXVIII)


"Why fear death when it is 'the' 

only permanent event of life."


©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/

Thursday 30 January 2014

‘MAYBE, YOU FIND ME STRANGE.’ - ‘NO, I DON’T FIND YOU STRANGE.’ (II)

Continued from:
‘MAYBE, YOU FIND ME STRANGE.’ - ‘NO, I DON’T FIND YOU STRANGE.’ (I)

There can be alternative ways to look at it.

It tells us about a politician Rahul Gandhi who is subscribed to his viewpoint only believing what he thinks for India’s future is imperative for India and there is no one else but Rahul himself and his party (in the political spectrum) who can achieve it.

It tells us the politician Rahul Gandhi is someone who believes what he thinks deserves to be thought and propagated and what others expect from him may or may not matter. His viewpoint is deep and others’ superficial.

It tells us Rahul believes that the negative factors against Congress and the UPA government can be tackled by giving the people their chance to participate in the process of the ‘politics of change’.

WHAT RAHUL GANDHI CAN STILL DO TO SALVAGE THE SITUATION FOR CONGRESS

It looks all gloomy, beyond the point of return, at least, for this Lok Sabha polls, with the polls just two months away.

The opinionating is increasingly voicing its outrage against the Congress party and the United Progressive Alliance government, the union government of India, led by the Congress party and headed by Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi.

The run of analyses and the subsequent trends are foretelling a historic loss for the Congress party with all pre-poll surveys giving the grand old party of India a historically low representation in the Lok Sabha.

Absolutely high anti-incumbency, senseless acts leading to price-rise in every segment and senseless statements on price-rise, epidemic level of political corruption - the humiliation that the party had in the recently held assembly polls was not without its ground.

Still, Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party can expect (in real terms) to reclaim the lost ground if Rahul Gandhi does certain radical things, proving innocence of his thoughts and genuineness of his concerns when he talks about the politics of change, when he says he wants to involve the nation in the process of changing the System.

Yes, unthinkably radical they are when we see them in the context of the prevailing polity of the Congress party:

WHATS TRENDING ON 65TH REPUBLIC DAY: THE PUNDITS ON ‘IFS, BUTS AND AYES’

The pundits on ‘ifs, buts and ayes’ of India, spread across the spectrum

The season of elections is hot. The temperature was set on an upswing with assembly polls in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Mizoram in the last quarter of 2013.

The ‘curve-on-growth-course’ led to the germination in time and the fans gathered in full strength to rehearse and to present their credentials and thus claims for their stakes when the fruit had ripened, when the ‘pundit in the fans’ would be in full flow to inundate us with their 360 Degree wisdom.

With just two months in the Lok Sabha polls, the moment on the time-scale is just around the corner when the fruit will enter its final stage of ripening.

Wednesday 29 January 2014

‘MAYBE, YOU FIND ME STRANGE.’ - ‘NO, I DON’T FIND YOU STRANGE.’ (I)

‘Maybe you find me strange.’ Rahul Gandhi, the interviewee, says. ‘No, I don’t find you strange.’ Arnab Goswami, the interviewer, says, during Rahul Gandhi’s first formal television interviewer after beginning the active political career.

A line during the course of conversation, or the interview, a line repeated to support the viewpoint, a line repeated to help the other lines already spoken during the course of the conversation, the line sums up the ‘politician Rahul Gandhi’ in clear terms.

It tells us something direct, that subtle point about the politician Rahul Gandhi that the nation so desperately wanted to understand. That interest, that necessity to know the politician Rahul Gandhi is fading.

Multiple factors have been responsible for it. Major among them are Rahul’s silence on many issues of national and social importance, Rahul’s delayed and ‘not up to the mark’ act on many issues and the mammoth scale of corruption attributed to the corruption of the Congress party led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.

WHATS TRENDING ON 65TH REPUBLIC DAY: INDIA, THE RAPE CAPITAL!

Saying so -- It is not fashionable. It is not patronizing. It is not as looking down on some lesser important ally. It is not biased. It is rooted in deeply disturbing trends.

When the world, when the global community, when the rich nations that constitute for the bulk of the tourist inflow in India - when they warn their citizens on traveling in India, labeling the world’s largest democracy as the rape capital of the world, it has reasons, reasons that should have ashamed us to take corrective measures long ago.

And ‘taking corrective measurers’ is not just about formulating some policies. We have had many policies strong enough to check and put the effective control. In fact, an already robust legal framework was given even more teeth after the December 16, 2012 gang rape of Delhi.

But, the number of rape cases, or to say the number of reported rape cases, has increased significantly since then.

‘Taking corrective’ measures must mean implementing the measures to correct the system, and that must be ‘without delay’.  

The task at hand becomes even more herculean with the fact that it is a mindset problem of a male dominated society where, in spite of all the progresses and the claims thus made, women are still treated as lesser, inferior counterparts, that further pushes for their stereotyping and commoditizing as objects, to be used, to be exploited, by the sick and perverted male mentalities.

The devil was always there, cryptically exposed, dwarfed by the inhibitions of a patriarchal society. Now, with chronically increased number of rape cases, it is telling us it doesn’t care what the morality thinks about it. It, in fact, is boasting its perversion with a shameless new audacity.

©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/ 

Tuesday 28 January 2014

WHATS TRENDING ON 65TH REPUBLIC DAY: CHAI WALLAH VS ASPIRING COMMON MAN VS MUFFLER WALLAH

-The ‘Chai Wallah’ Vs the Aspiring Common Man (the Prince) Vs the ‘Muffler Wallah’-

Irrespective of the Congress party not declaring Rahul Gandhi its prime-ministerial nominee and irrespective of Rahul Gandhi saying again and again that ‘power is poison and he is not for the post’, as he said again in his first formal interview to a TV channel, it is going to be Narendra Modi Vs Rahul Gandhi in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.

At the moment, the balance is heavily tilted in favour of Narendra Modi after the assembly election results of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Delhi in December last year when BJP registered a good (better than expected in some cases) performance while Congress saw humiliation, to the extent of absolute rejection.

Before, that, though Modi was still far ahead in different popularity surveys, the opinionating was not so skewed and the Rahul Factor was being talked about seriously.

That has seen a reasonable dent now.


WHATS TRENDING ON 65TH REPUBLIC DAY: CAMPAIGNING FOR THE CAMPAIGNS

The beginning was made when the assembly elections of Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh (and Mizoram) were announced.

The mini-theatre gave ample, even more than enough, representation to the tools of political communication.

Advertising mileage, branding linkage and marketing deliverance - every tool was exploited.

And the colloseum of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls is going to reflect the magnified scale of these tools used in the mini theatre in operation in the last quarter of 2013.

The players, the coaches, the platforms – all are greasing up to campaign for the campaigns that are going to sweep the nation.

The direct, the indirect, the ‘above-the-line’, the ‘below-the-line’, the explicit, the restrained, the provocative, the diminutive - every possible tool in the communication manuals is going to be used and re-used.

UPA’s Bharat Nirman, NDA’s efforts to undoing the ‘Bharat Nirman’, attacks, counter-attacks and allurements of other political outfits in the communication space – until now, the space has seen use of ‘flighting’, the intermittent burst of advertising campaigns. 

Now, with the Lok Sabha polls just two months away, be prepared to weather round the clock, 360 Degree ‘continuity’ of political communication right into your homes, in your lives, with regular intermittent bursts of overdose. 

©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/

Monday 27 January 2014

WHATS TRENDING ON 65TH REPUBLIC DAY: PRE-POLL SEASONING ON ELECTORAL REASONING

Five assembly elections just concluded. Four of them, Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, were touted as semifinal before the general elections, the Lok Sabha polls, of 2014.

It can be rightly said the nation was thrust into the poll mode right from the time these four state assembly elections were announced.

And the outcome has only galvanized the atmosphere.

No had expected such a big humiliation of Congress. No one had given such a big thumbs-up to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). No one had thought BJP would score so huge victories in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.

Despite the claims, most of the pre-poll surveys failed to gauge what was going to happen.

Now, with just two months left for the Lok Sabha polls, the run of the pre-Lok Sabha polls opinion poll surveys is already on the show and is expected to gain quick momentum in the coming days.

With each passing week, the frequency is going to increase until the model code of conduct puts them to go silent.

Yes, bitten and stung, expect the outcome of the four assembly results of December 2013 to reflect in their analyses and projections. 

©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/

SO, RAHUL GANDHI BEGINS WITH HIS ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEWS

So, it was a highly publicized, first television appearance of Rahul Gandhi for a personal interview. Let me be honest, I didn’t catch the initial part of it but what I could go through was more than enough.

It was like a Rahul Gandhi speech in terms of where Rahul Gandhi sounded confident, the grand vision that he and his party have for India, and the grand achievements, he and his grand old party have stacked over the years while pushing the India story on an upward growth curve (obviously, as claimed, the verity, the substance of which is validly questioned, time and again).

But he faltered, he floundered and he floundered badly where he faced tough questions on controversial issues like the 1984 anti-Sikh riots or corruption or price rise. He did not have answers or he did not know what to say. He simply did not know how to defend something that could never be defended logically.

Like always, there was nothing new in what Rahul Gandhi said or argued about, but whatever he says has to be taken into the larger picture of India, its sociopolitical and economy parameters, because he is the prime-ministerial choice of the main party of the ruling coalition of the country.

Some random observations on his interview:

Sunday 26 January 2014

WHATS TRENDING ON 65TH REPUBLIC DAY: THE POPULIST ANARCHY

Anarchy gets some Che Guevara style makeover in India, sans some of its elements

‘Yes, I am an anarchist’ - Arvind Kejriwal proudly said it.

Others use more subtle ways. They don’t say but keep on doing. Anarchy has been the way of many of the Indian political establishments.  

The rogue elements of the Samajwadi Party or the Bahujan Samaj Party, the militant brand of politics by the parties like Shiv Sena or MNS or the political elitism of every political outfit in the country contribute to the political anarchy (the democratic disorder) in the country.

Yes, they don’t proclaim it openly. They are silent workers here.

Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party are the beginners in the Indian political scene. They have gone political (from activism) to cleanse political of its malaise, to cleanse the System.

WHATS TRENDING ON 65TH REPUBLIC DAY: THE AAM AADMI

The common men, the public of the Republic

Okay, even if doubts have crept in about how central to their plans the ‘aam aadmi’ (the common man) is going to be in reality, the political parties are forced to look pro-common man, and it is unlike any time, at least after the JP Movement of 1970s.

And there looks an unusual likeness for it, a feeling that should be loved; a feeling that should be hoped to be the sustained one.

The ramblings are creating saints and sentient thinkers out of the politicians, of all types, after the Aam Aadmi Party’s stunning performance in the Delhi assembly polls.  

WHATS TRENDING ON 65TH REPUBLIC DAY: THE GANDHI CAPS

It was 2011 when the great Father of the Nation was being hotly debated again. The huge support to the anti-corruption moment led by the Gandhian social reformer Anna Hazare was a high time to revisit the Gandhian Thoughts once again.

And the strategists of the movement cleverly mixed the symbolism of the Gandhi Caps (inscribed with ‘Main Bhi Anna’ and other similar tag- lines then) with the debate.

It was a potent symbolism that also felt honest then.

Even if there was a split in Team Anna on the issue of formation of a political party, the Aam Aadmi Party (the political offshoot of the anti-corruption movement of 2011) continued with the Gandhi Caps making it an important part of its political branding exercise.

Yes, ‘Main Bhi Anna’ has been replaced with ‘Main Aam Aadmi Hun’.

WHATS TRENDING ON 65TH REPUBLIC DAY: GETTING APOLITICALLY POLITICAL

Now this is a queue which even the most frustrated (of uncountable queues) Indian is gleefully trying to be part of.

The unexpected, unprecedented success of the Aam Aadmi Party in the recently concluded Delhi assembly elections has given wings to the all types of ‘wannabe’ politicians.

So, there is a rush (mad or sincere only time can tell, though the benefit of doubts exists at the moment) to join the ‘so heavily despised and censured’ Indian Politics.

The lot that was adamantly apolitical until now is getting happily political now.

WHATS TRENDING ON 65TH REPUBLIC DAY

Each one has different interpretations, depending on which side you are.


Getting apolitically political

The Gandhi Caps

The Aam Aadmi
(The common man, the public of the Republic)

The Populist Anarchy
(Anarchy gets some Che Guevara style makeover in India, sans some of its elements)

Pre-poll seasoning on electoral reasoning

Campaigning for the campaigns

The ‘Chai Wallah’ Vs the Aspiring Common Man (the Prince) Vs the ‘Muffler Wallah’

The pundits on ‘ifs, buts and ayes’ of India, spread across the spectrum


Depending on which side you are, the way you think, it can be a ‘Happy Republic Day’ or an ‘Unhappy Republic Day’ or just a plain ‘Republic Day’, nothing more than a public holiday. 


©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/

Saturday 25 January 2014

WHEN YOU STOP FOLLOWING THE REST

Dying a disappointment
Driving the bewilderment home
Speaking a sentimental wreck
Getting into the life’s dent

It happens so when life sucks
It happens so when living ducks

Sometime,
The loss is gradual,
Realised

Sometime,
The shock is so real,
Unimagined

Friday 24 January 2014

COINING THE LIFE FROM ASHES - THE CIRCLE OF THAT LIFE (WHOM THE DEATH SUSTAINS)

A PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES ON CREMATION WORKERS OF VARANASI








COINING THE LIFE FROM ASHES

COIN DIVERS OF MANIKARNIKA GHAT, VARANASI


WHOM THE DEATH SUSTAINS 

CREMATION WORKERS OF VARANASI

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COINING THE LIFE FROM ASHES - THE COLLAGE (WHOM THE DEATH SUSTAINS)

A PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES ON CREMATION WORKERS OF VARANASI


COINING THE LIFE FROM ASHES

COIN DIVERS OF MANIKARNIKA GHAT, VARANASI


WHOM THE DEATH SUSTAINS 

CREMATION WORKERS OF VARANASI

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Thursday 23 January 2014

PUNISHED WITH GANG RAPE: THE MEGALOMANIAC IN US GETS EVEN MORE INSANE

Civilizations! Societies! Contradictions! Barbarism! Insanity! Savagery!
Again and again!
Complicity, explicit or implicit, an essential part of it!

In West Bengal’s Birbhum district, a 20-year old woman was punished with gang rape by 13 men.

Her crime: she was in a relationship with a man outside her tribe/community.

Punishment: The couple was ordered to pay fine, some say Rs. 25,000, some say Rs. 50,000, but that is irrelevant here. After the couple said it was unable to pay such a hefty amount, the village chief, the head of the Panchayat (village court) ordered she be gang raped while her partner was tied up to a pole in the village square. The village head headed the bunch of 13 who were ordered to extract the quantum of punishment from the couple (especially from the girl).

This incident, from a backward district like Birbhum of a backward state like West Bengal, is not a standalone incident. Rapes and killings by Panchayats (and by the societies) have been taking human lives (more specifically women lives) in India.

This incident, a direct replication of what we have seen so many times in Indian movies of all languages, is a real-life horror story of many Indias that are dying in the world’s largest democracy.

This incident, from a tribal dominated region of India, is one of the countless incidents of gender crimes perpetrated by the feudalism of male psyche.

And such incidents are not limited to the culturally and economically backward regions like this, they are uniformly distributed even to the metro cities like Delhi and Mumbai, reports and gender crime data from the National Crime Records Bureau say.  

India is known as a land of diversity, but at least, there is one universally, uniformly, distributed aspect of it - its megalomaniac composition of the male domination psyche. 

©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/ 

Wednesday 22 January 2014

COINING THE LIFE FROM ASHES - WHOM THE DEATH SUSTAINS

A PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES ON CREMATION WORKERS OF VARANASI


COINING THE LIFE FROM ASHES

COIN DIVERS OF MANIKARNIKA GHAT, VARANASI

WHOM THE DEATH SUSTAINS 

CREMATION WORKERS OF VARANASI

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Tuesday 21 January 2014

KEJRIWAL’S DHARNA POLITICS FIZZLES OUT

‘Dharna Politics’ (or politically motivated sit-in protests) couldn't become the buzzword of the political season (even in Delhi).

Now, it is doubtful if it (Dharna Politics) even aspired to be used, leave alone the thought of achieving the cult status of ‘fast politics’, the better taste of which Mr. Kejriwal had, the outcome of which he exploited successfully to gain a political foothold in Delhi, when Mr. Kejriwal decided to use it as a tool to force action on his demands, something that would have, for sure, left in a bitter taste.

His demands, that were routine political stuff and spoke more of his personal political ambitions than a concern for the ‘aam aadmi’, the common man, were clearly a breach of the trust that the electorate had shown in him while giving his Aam Aadmi Party such an unprecedented support in the Delhi assembly elections of December 2013.   

DHARNA POLITICS COULDN’T BECOME THE BUZZWORD

Unlike the ‘fast politics’!
THE ANTI-CLIMAX!

Kejriwal eases out of the trap he set but found himself trapped.

Blaming the Delhi Police being a highly compromised institution and trying to wrest its control making four Delhi Police officers’ suspension as his raison d'etre, Kejriwal finds his ill-thought reasoning compromised and desperately crashes out of his 10-day agitation show without scoring any point.

SHAMEFUL/UNACCEPTABLE!

But the more shameful part was his claiming the victory. 'The Kejriwal Letdown' show continues.

Tries to save his face! Tries to save his skin!  

But, thankfully, fails miserably.

Given the gloom of the prevailing political doom, we cannot afford compromises. We cannot afford complacency.

Monday 20 January 2014

DHARNA POLITICS & KEJRIWAL VS DELHI POLICE: BRAVADO? DESPERADO? HEROISM?

Interesting! Ironically interesting!

An elected chief minister is protesting against an elected government.

That is happening in the world’s largest democracy.

One is the old, rugged and seasoned player of the game.

The other is the new, rugged and increasingly unreasoned rookie on the block.

A people’s representative is pitted against another people’s representative.

They both claim to be fighting for the people.

And their entourage is ready, prepared for the all-out battle.

Would ‘dharna politics’ become a buzzword like ‘fast politics’?

Mr. Kejriwal has kept a 10-day window to make ‘dharna politics’ a widely splashed word, to tell people that he is ‘by the people’ and he is the real ‘for the people’.

Bravado? Desperado? (Though we need, and I would love to use, but Heroism is fast becoming a misplaced word here.)

Sunday 19 January 2014

KEJRIWAL VS DELHI POLICE – DELHI GOVERNMENT’S SIT-IN PROTEST: NOT IN SYNC THIS TIME

So, Mr. Kejriwal is going to do it again.

Chances are and as he has threatened, tomorrow morning, a Monday morning, when the third week of the first month of 2014 begins, he (with his ministers and MLAs) is going to sit on dharna/sit-in (let’s see if turns out to be a fast protest) demanding suspension for four officers of the Delhi Police, who allegedly, according to them (AAP), didn’t carry out the duty they were supposed to do.

Delhi, being the National Capital City of India is an interesting case study on parameters of administrative governance. It is if of the Union Government and it is of the Delhi Government. But, the way policy matters have been worked out for the city-state, the balance is tilted in favor of the Union Government.

The Union Government handles the ‘law and order’. The Delhi Development Authority is under the control of the Lieutenant-Governor and not the chief minister. All the three municipal corporations of Delhi are not under the Delhi chief minister. Then there are other sticky issues.

This distribution of power may be debatable but one thing is sure about it that it hurts the ego of every chief minister of Delhi, irrespective of the political affiliation.

And Arvind Kejriwal is no exception. He could have been, given by his promise of introducing a ‘politics of change’, but he is proving it fast that he is just yet another routine politician.

And to change that, he needs to show us he meant to walk the talk, and that has to happen soon.

Anyway, about his ‘dharna’ beginning tomorrow, in North Block, outside the office of the Union Home Minister - he is demanding heads of four policemen – and he is demanding the Delhi Police be placed under the Delhi Government.

Now, that cannot be done.

Friday 17 January 2014

WHOM THE DEATH SUSTAINS - THE COLOUR OF THAT LIFE

A PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES ON CREMATION WORKERS OF VARANASI


THE COLOUR OF THAT LIFE

WHOM THE DEATH SUSTAINS 

CREMATION WORKERS OF VARANASI

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