West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India. Neighbouring regions are Nepal to the northwest, Sikkim and Bhutan to the north, Assam to the northeast, Bangladesh to the east, the Bay of Bengal to the south, Orissa to the southwest and Jharkhand and Bihar to the west. Mardi, janvier 18, 2011. A rickshaw driver in a street of Calcutta. Mardi, janvier 18, 2011. Samedi, mai 19, 2007. Selling lemons on the market in Kolkata. Samedi, mai 19, 2007. Jeudi, mai 17, 2007. Jeudi, mai 17, 2007.

Nikki Haley became the first woman ever to win Republican Party nomination to contest elections to be the Governor, in the U. She rose from obscurity in just six months, polling just around ten percentage points early this year, to become a sensational national star politician. In the run off election she trounced her opponent, a senior party pol, by a two to one margin.

A Slide Sow for fast people. A day in the life of Jaïn sadhvis. After I had shared the evening meal, in another room, it was time to say good bye to the Sadhvis. I was to meet them 2 days later in Mysore. Supervising the evening meal the Jaïn neighbors are bringing in. After the long walk, the moment of meditation for the Jain sadhvis.

The administrative and legislative capital is Lucknow and the judicial capital is Allahabad. Maheshwar, a young Brahmin during the morning Puja on the banks of the sacred Ganges in Varanasi. Morning Puja for young Brahmin on the banks of the Holy Ganges in Varanasi.

A state on the Malabar Coast of southwestern India. To its east and northeast, Kerala borders Tamil Nadu and Karnataka; to its west and south lie the Indian Ocean islands of Lakshadweep and the Maldives, respectively. Kerala envelops Mahé, a coastal exclave of Pondicherry. Kerala is one of four states that comprise the linguistic-cultural region known as South India.

It is a former French colony, consisting of four non-contiguous enclaves, or districts, and named for the largest, Puducherry. A kid showering himself in a street of Pondy.

Some images of a trip I took from the sources of the Ganges to Calcutta. Sunday, November 20, 2005. Those 56 images are a sample of what I saw during this journey, the people I met going down from Gaumukh, the sources of the sacred Ganges to Calcutta. On my last day in Calcutta, I finally got the chance to see what the monsoon could look like. Shot from the Howrah bridge.

This blog will show images from my summer trip to India. I stayed two months there, first going to shoot images of Widows in Vrindavan . Then I headed toward Rajasthan, a place I already visited twice before. An Indian woman cleaning up wool imported from China in a small workshop of Nawalghar. An Indian woman picking up flowers in a garden of Pushkar. Those are mostly used in temples around town. A woman passing by an o.

Drying Saris on the ghats in Haridwar where the next Kumbh Mela will take place. Bodhya, a buddhist nun from Tibet, living inside theTibetan settlement of Clement Town, near Dehradhun.