$3 holler, y’all
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under united states
A worthy fight and it only takes $3.
Countries need to develop? Yes.
Electricity is vital to people who live in severe deprivation? Absolutely.
Irrigation can end hunger? In some cases.
Big dams are the way to do it? Not a chance.
Tags: africa, dams, deprivation, documentary, donate, ethiopia, hydroelectric, irrigation, kenya, poverty, slumchella
Gully water tap
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Work with what you've got
Water in India, like in many developing countries, isn’t exactly accessible to all. Here, in a busy gully in Old Delhi, amid bustling sari shops and dhabas and the like, a water tap is something a focal point for nearby residents.
During an afternoon visit, I watched this man come with several buckets to fill and dishes to wash. He had to fight for time with a nearby snack vendor who had similar intentions.
Tags: delhi, gully, india, labor, old delhi, photography, poverty, washing, water
We gotta reduce, re-use, recycle
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Bad news bears, or something
Dharamshala kids form their own recycling brigade. Basically, they’re on the poorest rungs of society. School is not so much an option or concern; sorting through trash to boost family income is their vocation.
They were collecting and sorting their glass and plastic along the spiritual hiking path surrounding the Namgyal Monastery.
This is reality in an over-poor, over-crowded country. At least it helps mitigate the ever-growing volumes of trash 1.2 billion people produce (though to be fair, India’s waste output in raw terms remains far behind the United States).
Tags: dharamshala, economy, environment, india, namgyal, photography, poverty, recycling
Children of the fort
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Brother and sister
Young ones wandering at Agra Fort. Maybe looking for tourists to harangue. Or to be harangued by tourists (read: me).
Tags: agra, agra fort, children, cute, india, photography, poverty, tourism
Rural village drive-by
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Gaon ke log
Several weeks ago, we took a weekend out of town to stay at a fort hotel in Rajasthan. Along the way, we passed fields of sarson (mustard) and atta (wheat) and channa (chickpea). The five hour trip took us over back country roads through rural India.
Domestic scenes and courtyards like the one above (nothing spectacular — the taxi didn’t stop) were common.
It’s really beautiful out there. Simple and and poor and beautiful.
Tags: cattle, farming, india, photography, poverty, rajasthan, rural
Delhi winter: Keep the home (and street) fires burning
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Not exactly a warm hearth
Delhi winters are cold. Maybe not by U.S. standards, but here only the very rich (and not even most of them) can retreat to insulated buildings and central heating. Hence, if it’s 38 degrees outside, it’s pretty close to 38 inside.
The middle class survives on electric space heaters. The poor and laboring classes make due with nightly fires of wood, scrap and garbage. The extremely impoverished huddle together under blankets.
Here, some chowkidars and drivers sit around a burning piece of chipboard in posh Hauz Khas village in December.
Obviously, it’s not exactly chilly in Delhi anymore. But, as usual, I’m behind on posting photos.
Tags: cold, delhi, fire, india, poverty, weather, winter
Gandhiji’s talisman
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test:
Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
Then you will find your doubts and yourself melting away.
— M. K. Gandhi
From a wall in Gandhi Smriti in Delhi, now a museum and the grounds of the leader’s assassination.
Tags: delhi, gandhi, history, india, philosophy, politics, poverty, quote, talisman
