I agree with Pareshbhai. I do believe that manual scavenging is still going on different way in Gujarat and elsewhere. e.g. In Ahmedabad I have seen small children defecate in Retiawadi (on pakka road, from where thousands of vehicles pass daily). Now it is the Municipal safai worker who will clean this area. He has to manually carry- not exactly Mathe melu. NAVSARJAN had few years back shown story of WADA JAJRU in Saurashtra where area was cleaned by safai worker manually. I do not if Wada Jajru are still in operation
i am glad you are committed to project 'other india' in all your photo journalism.
this particular photograph captured in its stark and barren background doesn't distract the viewer and compels him to focus only on the subject itself - the mother and the child. in that case i would like to see it in a close up, for i am eager to read their expressions of whatever feelings the burden of living has drawn on them.
Very intelllegently taken. No need to show faces as it could any mother any child. Meri duniiya hai maa tere aanchal main. Sheetal Chhaya hai dukh ke jungle main. Remembered the song by S.D.Burmanda? - Shyam Seeta, Ahmedabad
Photographer tarikeni tamari drushti saras chhe, je photographma kalatmak rite dekhai aave chhe.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Pareshbhai. I do believe that manual scavenging is still going on different way in Gujarat and elsewhere. e.g. In Ahmedabad I have seen small children defecate in Retiawadi (on pakka road, from where thousands of vehicles pass daily). Now it is the Municipal safai worker who will clean this area. He has to manually carry- not exactly Mathe melu. NAVSARJAN had few years back shown story of WADA JAJRU in Saurashtra where area was cleaned by safai worker manually. I do not if Wada Jajru are still in operation
ReplyDeletei am glad you are committed to project 'other india' in all your photo journalism.
ReplyDeletethis particular photograph captured in its stark and barren background doesn't distract the viewer and compels him to focus only on the subject itself - the mother and the child. in that case i would like to see it in a close up, for i am eager to read their expressions of whatever feelings the burden of living has drawn on them.
Very intelllegently taken. No need to show faces as it could any mother any child.
ReplyDeleteMeri duniiya hai maa tere aanchal main.
Sheetal Chhaya hai dukh ke jungle main.
Remembered the song by S.D.Burmanda?
- Shyam Seeta, Ahmedabad
nice
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