Manhattan - on the way into Newark
Ready to board in Newark (agent told me I wasn't allowed to take pictures there, though...)
Now, *that's* a comfy seat!
Central Park at Night
Cacasus Mountains
Frozen desolation
Sunset over the Afghani border, near Mashhad
Deep frozen canyon, just inside of Afghanistan
First meal in India - hotel breakfast
Boat to Elephanta Island
Taj Mahal Hotel, and “The Terminus”
Cheese!
Lots of families. Friendly ones!
D's not really worried, just tired
Pulling in the lines - fishing boats at Elephanta Island
“When my boat is built again...”
In the Elephanta Caves
The famous “five-faced Shiva” (fourth face is implied, facing backwards into the wall, and fifth is transcendental, unable to be observed by mortals. I really don't understand Hinduism!)
Devon at cave entrance
David playing “Indiana Jones and the Seven Mother Goddesses”
Exchange photo-op
Devon being “blessed” by Pavarti and Vishnu at their wedding - actually, the setting and expression are entirely serendipitous
It's a crow of sorts, but what kind? A mystery for Steve to solve
Buying roasted corn at the dock
Fishing fleet - already back, or not going out
Moooo
Docking back at the Terminus - Taj Mahal Hotel in the background
Hayley the TV producer, being measured for new clothes
Emily shooting Hayley's measurement
Bombay University, out the taxi window
Out patiently-suffering cab driver
Victoria Terminus - from the back of a crazy black & yellow cab
D at Crawford Market
Pineapple salesman at Crawford Market
Our self-appointed guide
The milkman goeth...
“And I have a friend who sells spices....”
Lights and noise
Yes, it's a *real* meat market - those crows perched on the meathooks are mighty fat
Kite-fliers on a roof along CP Tank Rd
After the Mumbadevi Shrine - D and I have been duly blessed, with “bindi” smudges on our foreheads to show for it
Mutton Road tenement
This is where people in Mumbai to have their car/scooter horns repaired. From the sound of the roads, business must be very good
On the way back, another crazy cab ride
Schoolkid crossing
Public school kids in Dharavi - a camera comes out, and they swarm
This girl has perhaps the most soulful expression I've ever seen on a kid - I was captivated
And then the boys swarmed again, and pushed her out of the way
Dharavi schoolyard
Hamming it up
Yes, this is the classroom, and the kids are totally psyched
Class recitation
Kids everywhere like freaking out the grownups by crossing their eyes
Everybody on the bus!
Mumbai streetside - today's the kite festival!
Mobile Creche - preschool for infants of migrant construction workers
“Bridge” classroom at Mobile Creche site, helping get kids of migrant constructions workers ready for mainstream school
School show at Mobile Creche
The “school show” at a mobile creche site
Devika (on left) of Mobile Creche, with several of the teachers/mothers
Mumbai dawn, across the bay
Pavement dwellers
Community block leader, translator, and Sundar
Day after the festival - all the girls have henna
And the boys want to be the center of attention, as always
Google Earth chart on the desk of the community block manager
Debris out the window of the block manager's building
Girls only, this time - hard as hell keeping the boys out of a single picture
Second story neighbors are surprisingly happy to see us - they smile and wave
Small handpowered amusement park rides are all over Dharavi
Chapatis drying on the roadside...
...and the garbage truck runs over a few
Mumbai sunset
Outside the pumping station at Kandlakoyya, near Hyderabad
After school program at Kandlakoyya
Open-wired tractor batteries as an educational tool
Anne makes her point
Where the elite go to meet
Arriving at Rajvilas in Jaipur, just after midnight
Kite tree
Downtown Jaipur, from the bus
Every picture tells a story
On our way out to the village
Brickmakers
GVNML presentation in village - Powerpoint, of course!
Laundry time
Visiting a village house - the kids have never seen Westerners in person before
Hamming it up as well as the boys do!
Fire's still going in the kitchen
Christine and Sako check out the beef
The public school - we field some of the students' questions
The womens' council
Jaipur, early on a Saturday morning
Robyn jockies with a cow to get to the nut vendor
Jain temple - we get the history of the world in brief
Jaipur - that place whose name we can't remember, but from which the womenfolk watched the royal procession
Wanna drag?
The other fort
The next holiday card?
Rajasthani musicians singing “the lemon song” - ask me
