Happy Mother’s day!
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
My Pondicherry mother
Mom on a boat. Love you, Mom.
Tags: boat, family, india, mom, photography, pondicherry
Hunting for fish
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
The all important fish finder
Working on a diving story and feeling nostalgic. Here’s a shot from my exploration diving trip through Pondicherry. In the middle is the Garmin sounder that helps us choose where to dive. Out of five dives, three came up mostly empty.
But it was still a hell of a trip, diving waters no one has ever dived before.
Tags: garmin fish finder, india, journalism, ocean, photography, pondicherry, scuba diving, shenanigans
Fisherchildren
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Pondicherry kids look into the camera
Down by the jetty. And I didn’t have to pay them.
Tags: children, fishing, india, kids, photography, pondicherry
Misunderstanding soda
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
I prefer my Pepsi triangular
Pondicherry signboard.
Tags: india, language, photography, pondicherry, sign, wallah
Fruit wallah
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Hot day, heaven on wheels
Either I’ve built up some immunity or I’ve just been lucky. But I now eat roadside stall fruit with impunity. This guy was pretty clean about it all, as you can see below.
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Tags: food, fruit, health, india, photography, pondicherry, wallah
Old men and the sea
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Early morning
Plank boat
I have a fondness for fisherpeople. Being on the southeastern coast of India, Pondicherry is full of them.
They’re poor, diligent and seafaring. They’re lives are precariously tethered to the global marine ecosystem, something we in the West (and particularly in the Midwest, away from coasts) tend to ignore. Yet it’s our pollution that causes stuff like this, for example. Continue reading this entry » » »
Tags: economy, emerging nations, fishing, india, ocean, photography, pondicherry
Street life
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Street ledge home
A family keeps its household wares sprawled out on a step along the sidewalk where they sleep. The New Horizon Sugar Mill is now defunct.
Pondicherry hip shot.
Tags: begging, emerging nations, india, photography, pondicherry, poverty, street
