Brickmakers of Akurdi
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Family of brickmakers
India’s construction boom requires bricks. Bricks are labor intensive. They are carefully molded and dried in the sun. Then they’re intricately stacked amid charcoal, for firing in what essentially an open kiln.
Here, a family of brickmakers are getting ready to fire another batch of bricks (more photos below).
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Tags: akurdi, brick, construction, emerging nations, india, journalism, photography, pune
Unexplored Andamans: A scientist’s playground
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More often thought of as paradise for beach bums and scuba divers, the Andaman Islands are also a scientist’s playground, an alluring cache of uncharted island biodiversity. The archipelago lies about 1,200 kilometers from India in the middle of the Bay of Bengal.
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Tags: andaman and nicobar, andaman islands day gecko, conservation, emerging nations, environment, india, island, journalism, Phelsuma andamanensis, photography, wandoor, wildlife
Creatures of the Andaman deep
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A full gallery of images from diving in the Andamans. All in one place. To accompany a story on India’s nascent diving industry, the unofficial headquarters of which is on Havelock Island, smack in the middle of the Bay of Bengal.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, conservation, diving, environment, havelock, journalism, ocean, photography, sea, wildlife
Citizen journalism, old-school
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Words for a people suppressed
The Tibetan Refugee Self Help Centre in Darjeeling proudly displays the old World War II-era hand press that printed the Tibetan Freedom newspaper for 32 years. The newspaper was started on the advice of the Dalai Llama, exiled to India, to spread word of Tibetans, their identity and their struggle against Chinese control.
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Tags: china, dalai lama, darjeeling, india, journalism, photography, press, printing, tibet, tibetan refugee self help center
Dear India, thank you for inviting me to stay here forever
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under notes
After 89 mind-boggling, frustration-inducing, grey-hair-propagating, bureaucracy-cursing, confusion-rendering days of limbo over my application for a permanent residency and work permit in India, the central government here in Delhi— lithe, agile and efficient as it always is (heavy sarcasm) — showed me the meaning of unexpected haste.
Though I was expecting the process to take months or more to complete (if ever), at 4:23 p.m., Monday, February 1, 2010, I, Adam Franklin Jadhav, officially became an Overseas Citizen of India. For nearly all intents and purposes, I now have dual citizenship and am free to do almost entirely as I please.
Hallelujah.
Tags: bureaucracy, citizenship, government, india, journalism, oci, officials, overseas citizen of india, preparation, shenanigans
Year of the clownfish
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under photography
My favorite underwater subject
I’m going to be out of range of the Internet for a few days. As such, this week will be dedicated to photos from a story on India’s nascent dive industry. Above, is a standard, Western Clown anemonefish.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, anemone, beach, clownfish, diving, environment, fish, havelock, india, journalism, ocean, photography, port blair, sea, underwater, western clown, wildlife
The sea is a lovely, cruel mistress
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A fetish to the sea goddess
On December 26, 2004, a tsunami wiped out a swath of fishermen’s homes on the beach near Hut Bay on Little Andaman island.
Five years later, I went there to see what, if anything, was left.
The fishermen and their familes have moved inland, afraid of the sea. The beach is scattered with garbage and little else.
A small temple was rebuilt near the beach, and fishermen worship there and at fetishes along the sandy spit for good luck as they head for their daily catch. Hanging from the fetish: bangles, earrings, hair and a comb.
The sea goddess is still worshipped because they know no other way. She is wonderful and terrible all at once, one fishermen said.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, beach, cricket, fishing, god, hut bay, india, island, journalism, little andaman, ocean, photography, religion, sea, tsunami
