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This is the first time I think I've seen photos in daylight again without a woman! I looked and looked, and apparently there are no women on the streets in Dehli (not including the tourist in the first shot). Even at the bazaar, selling, it's men. This is quite astonishing.
So, is this anything you'd noticed?
Want to know where you're going next.
Oh! no, I spotted a couple of women in the 2nd photo.
Your Majesty Crown Princess
i have been avoiding Delhi for some good reasons. i can no longer afford it with my paltry travel budget. i skip and hop in to a different train. i love old Delhi, i have taken many pictures perhaps in a different camera. Can't find them. Yes i'll go there again. But not to New Delhi. i don't want to pick up a fight with the Prime minister. Why unnecessary tension.
Ruth, i don't know, i never noticed. Now i have to check all my posts. i have picked up fights with Priests but i have always been very respectful to Nuns. One funny incident in Wynad Kerala. I went to a Bakery to buy some biscuits ( cookies) i found a Nun buying some bread and other things. I asked her if she would mind if i pay for what she bought. First she was surprised then she laughed, She said in Malayalam that she has an account in the Bakery and told the shop keeper to put what i bought in her account. The shop keeper refused to take any money from me. She ranted something in very fast Malayalam which i couldn't understand. Then she stuffed a bar of chocolate in my hands and left. Very funny.
This was very early in the morning Ruth, normally only women do the buying of daily needs. i am also surprised. i never noticed.
There are women in my posts largely because they manage things better. For them management is natural, they don't need an MBA.
A woman comes to my street selling vegetables. Wish i could post her voice and shoot a video. Hers is the best sales strategy i have ever seen. She makes people come out of their houses. This uneducated woman can conduct workshops for the best brains in advertising. Ruth, you should see how women sell fish in the fish market. Only women can deal with such tough competetion. No one pays any attention to some novel methods of selling. You can write a book on it Ruth. When you come to India you'll have lots of subjects to write.
oh I don't know, i am confused really, i am not booking any ticket, i'll go to the station and decide.
IZZI SWEET, whattoo ?
yes yes yes. i'll go to Delhi again and take some pictures. Any one from Delhi would be annoyed with these pictures. Is this where our President lives ? Is this the Capital of India ?
I never go to New Delhi IZZI, fly overs turnpikes, huge multistoreyd malls, the traffic. i skip Delhi and Bangalore. i hate both the cities, but i love old Delhi. And you need a lot of money in Delhi which i never have.
Hehe, that's a good story. I think when you do good things like that, something good happens to you. Sometimes it's just the feeling of warmth, but sometimes it's like what happened to you, someone actually does you a favor. It's a cosmic law, just like physical laws. I wonder what they said to you.
We did not have any women sellers in Istanbul. We had a vegetable seller on our corner, but he was grumpy and we were maybe the only faithful customers. Women bought their goods early there too. Went home, cooked supper in the morning. Did housework, washed windows. Then sat all afternoon gossiping, drinking tea. But they could run the country, very smart.
Now I want to write a book comparing Turkish and Indian women.
SEWMOUSE, Road side vegetables are always fresh. so many people, they sell very fast, they have to, they have no access to refregeration. Yes there is a set price, no room for bargaining.
Now giant corporations have come in selling vegetables and fruits in fancy malls, my sister says, the prices are the same. Now even the lower middle class people prefer to buy from fancy malls.
i am confused actually, on one hand you get everything under one roof in a mall. On the other hand, these giant corporations using modern farming equipment put poor farmers and farm hands out of work
They end up committing suicides. And these poor roadside vegetable sellers would soon go out of business.
Ruth, fish markets are very interesting places, you'll have to bear the stink. These ladies sing songs to attract customers. sometimes the songs are obscene. If the lady had a bad day and couldn't sell much, she may throw dirty water on you if your bargain is insulting. i have not been to a fish market in recent past. They used to announce their rates in good rhyming songs. How her fish would brighten up your day how you can make your husband attracted to you by feeding him her fish. i don't know if the younger generation of fisher women still sing those songs.
Ruth Never never get in to a fight with a fisher woman. The language is always obscene. My mom used to send me to buy fish but i was always terrified of bargaining.
but i always got some bonus fish from these ladies. i prefered men sellers, these ladies would say you don't know what a woman is come buy from me. i stopped going there. it is still a nightmare for me.
dearest Angel there is not much here, Delhi is surrounded by very fertile land. the reason for repeated invasions. So plenty of vegetables and fruits. Very good and cheap food on the roadside. Its the atmosphere and the activity which i find very charming, but locals avoid crowded places and prefer, modern fancy shopping malls, i avoid them as much as possible. i find that i am not myself, and i act like a thief in these shopping malls.
love and HugsAngel
Hi Pauline, normally women do all the shopping for daily needs, now, working women don't have time for that. So they do weekly shopping. Women carry all the burdon on their shoulders, in the cities and more so in the villages.
Yes as you say the atmosphere in such open market places is bursting with energy. i love to be there.
Ah FOUR DINNERS, old Delhi is where all the Moghuls ruled, forts and palaces, New Delhi is pretty modern and boring, just speeding cars, smog, fly overs. When foreign dignitaries visit India, they are shown only that. Wow, India is pretty advanced. they don't get the stink in the airconditioned cars and they are never shown where people live.
Are you telling me that children get sex ed at the fish market? Haha. If Don taught 4th grade in India he wouldn't have to teach the boys sex ed; just send them to the fish market, "be sure to buy from the ladies. Come back, write me a report."
I wanted to see what kind of fish you catch in Chennai, just googled "type fish sold chennai" and I found this Indian guy who said when he was growing up, going to fish market with his mom, didn't know if he was drooling on the fish or the beautiful women selling them:
http://kamalji.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/07/fish-market-2.htm
hahaha Ruth, i never had that education. it would be a good subject for research though. i am a good subject too. i am a good 'specimen' My cousin who is a doctor in England used to make me stand and count my bones with a book in her hand. i said why don't you count your own bones, she said counting your bones is easy, you are a walking skeleton.
Thank you MARIE, please come to India, its a land of extremes, colourful activities every where. Ruth Translated your comment for me. She has been to Paris many times and she has a blog on Paris
Paris Deconstructed please see her photoblog FLYING
and dear readers please click here to Enjoy MARIE's gorgeous pictures
July 23, 2007 3:23 pm, 
lorenzothellama
Dear Rauf,
Thank you for these pictures. My only experience with Delhi was an overnight stop at Delhi Airport. (what a place!! so exciting) We were whisked away to a hotel on the outskirts of the city for the night, and then onto Katmandu the next day.
I loved Katmandu and spent many hours just wandering around by myself. The Nepalese are so gentle and friendly.
Seeing your photos I would love to go back to Delhi and spend some time there. It looks really interesting.
Thank you for visiting me again. I have seen your Potter posting before and I love it. These are the true potters, those who dig their clay and work with man-powered wheels, not electric ones like me. I did however, have to make pottery my main income as I was bringing up four children alone. I combined potting and selling my pots with teaching pottery to blind and disabled people and taking a few private students at home.
Love Lorenzo.
LORENZO, sorry for the late response, i completely missed it.
Delhi airport has very elite atmosphere and it is hardly an image of India. You see real India only in Villages. Hope you'd visit one day Lorenzo.
i spent a couple of days in Khatmandu on a hired bicycle. got drenched in rain.
lots of love
rauf
Thanks SANGITA, couldn't find other pictures. i stop for a second take picture and keep walking. i don't look at the people. But in India no one really objects. Those are the steps of Jama masjid early in the morning. not many people. Later in the day the place gets filled up with hawkers beggers. Indira Gandhi cleaned it up and removed all the shops around jama masjid during emergency.
these fotos r good saar, but yes if u can make a trip to delhi n post fotos then nothing like it :)