Just cleaned for Diwali. Jodhpur

For Diwali , many indian clean their house or shop; some paint the walls...

Feet. Jaipur

Gramin bank day. Pushkar

Once a month, the Gramin bank, which created the micro credits idea, opens her gate to the countryside women.
Each of them have a notebook, with what the bank had given, what she gave back.
A long queue all during the morning, and of course, they all come with their more beautiful clothes.
Just one thing; why the gramin bank trust more women???

Window. Jodhpur

No, she is not a princess cloistered by a bad rajah...

Happy diwali. Jaisalmer

I think i heard this sentence one hundred times and one thousand times the sound of the crackers!
I prefer to show you an intimate moment in one street of the golden city.

The grandma. Bundi

Couple. Bundi

They were quietly chatting in their house entrance; a warm connection between them...

A very smart old man . Bundi

Veiled and jewelled. Rajasthan

Donkey. Jodhpur

Some houses in the blue city cannot be reached with a car or a trucks, because of the steps.
opportunity for this woman to carry materials with a donkey, that's how she can have some ruppiahs.

Chatting. Pushkar

The little sweeper. Bundi

Veiled. Rajasthan

Ma soeur Anne, ne vois-tu rien venir? Bundi

Il n'y a pas qu'à Jodhpur que les maisons sont bleues....aurefois signe distinctif des demeures des brahmanes, l'usage de cette couleur s'est maintenant généralisée.
La photo est prise de la rue, les grandes soeurs (pas visibles ici) sont ensuite descendues por m'inviter à entrer.
Bundi est plus authentique que les villes plus connues du rajasthan; mais je ne donne pas beaucoup de temps avant que celà ne change!

There is only in Jodhpur that houses are blue; first reserved to the houses of Brahmans, the custom of this color now became widespread.
The photo is taken by the street, the older sisters (not visible here) then came down(fell) por to invite me to enter.
Bundi is more authentic than cities more known for the rajasthan; but I do not look a lot of time before changing!

Smoke.

Bus stand, somewhere on the way from Pushkar to Jodhpur. A smoking moment close to the bus.

Evening smoking time. Pushkar

Sewing and chatting in the shade. Jaisalmer

The barber shop. Bikaner

A marvelous place for a barber shop, is it not?

The brass band's doyen. Bikaner

Just coming back from a wedding party,late in the afternoon, the brass band doyen relaxing in the band's hall entrance.

Riddle. Pushkar

Try to guess who is this girl's mother. not very difficult, just have a look on her eyes...

The crossing. Bikaner

Big problem in the old Bikaner center, a camel driver does not success in driving his animal which stays in the middle of a crossing.
Rickshws, motorbikes are waiting and the drivers begin to loose their patience!
A shame for the camel driver...

Breakfast time. Deshnok

Milk for the holy animals inside the incredible rat's temple, in the Bikaner surroundings.

Hungry? Bikaner

In a very , very thin and dark street of the very chaotic old center of Bikaner.

Apsaras. Jaisalmer

In one of the marvelous jain temple in The Jaisalmer fortress. Are they of stone or living?

The green door. Pushkar

There is a wedding procession in the street, one day she will have to marry ....

Street scene. Jaisalmer

A sunny day. Jaisalmer

Going to school. Jodhpur

Cool weather in this morning of december in Jodhpur, kids stop to buy some sweeties, before going to school.
My last post for a while, no more internet connection....

Sweeping. Khuri

Dans le désert du Rajasthan, ce sont les femmes qui construisent les maisons , les décorent...c'est sans doute la raison pour laquelle celles-ci adoptent des formes féminines, sans véritables angles droits.
Bien entendu la raison en est aussi la nature du matériau utilisé, le pisé, terre , paille, bouse de vache qui fait de la maçonnerie une sorte de modelage.

In the desert of Rajasthan, it is the women who build houses, decorate them it is doubtless the reason for which these adopt feminine forms, without real right angles.
Naturally the reason is also the nature of the used material, the pisé, the clay, the straw, the dung of cow there which makes of the masonry a sort of modelling.

Evening portrait III. Jodhpur

Street scene. Bikaner

The unemployed young barber.Bikaner

Almost abstract. Bikaner

Cutting the chili. Bikaner

The wall. Khuri

In this village of the rajasthani desert, houses are built and decorated by the women ; each house have her own personality.

Henne and glance.Jaisalmer

Water task. Jaisalmer

How explain that in this country each daily life action done by women is a pleasure for the eyes?

The wooden fork and the veil.

On the road from Pushkar to Jaisalmer, she was waiting the bus to come back home.

Daily life. Jaipur

Evening time; time to go back home for this man and his cow; light enough to keep on sewing at the window for this old woman...

The mattress. Bikaner

Sewing and sewing the matress all along the day on the sidewalk....she works in light but the others in a dark little room with no window...

Visiting a jain temple. Jaisalmer

With a priest as a guide and under the protection of the gods.

The invite. Jaisalmer

Tea break in Jaisalmer, she is all in white, but a modern style white dressing...white is the widows color in India, as well as white is the mourning color in Asia.

The famous Pushkar lady.

Papu at home, the sun is setting.

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Three ages in women's life. Jaipur

In a lowlighted house entrance, Jaipur. i have been impressed by the symbolic meaning of this scene.

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Lost in her thinks. Pushkar

I was not in situation to connect yesterday, international women's day.
So, for me, it will be today.
thanks to them,who contribute so much to bring beauty and sensibility to this world...

Vegetables, fruits and...faces.Pushkar

Pushkar market.

Veiled and jewelled. Pushkar

In the street, during a wedding women procession; she is not dancing, she just just did it before and now watching at the others.

Shepperd II. Old Pushkar

The pilar. Pushkar

Wedding in Pushkar, some women are dancing in the street, a few ones, others are just watching.

3+1. Pushkar

One is not in the confidence. A moment before the starting of the wedding procession.