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  • 16th December 2013, Gurgaon, India. Fine decorative work being done by workers at Lecoanet Hemant in Gurgaon, India on the 16th, December 2013.<br />
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  • A woman prays quietly as Hindu's celebrate Holi in the Banke Bihari Temple in Vrindavan, in the Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh, India ,1st March 2010. <br />
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Holi, also called the Festival of Colours, is a spring festival celebrated by Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains and others. It is primarily observed in India, Nepal, Srilanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and countries with a large Indian diaspora populations, such as Suriname, Guyana, South Africa, Trinidad, UK, USA, Mauritius, and Fiji. In West Bengal of India and Bangladesh it is known as Dolyatra (Doul Jatra) or Basanta-Utsav ("spring festival"). The most celebrated Holi is that of the Braj region, in locations connected to the god Krishna: Mathura, Vrindavan, Nandagaon, and Barsana. These places have become tourist destinations during the festive season of Holi, which lasts here to up to sixteen days.<br />
The main day, Holi, also known as Dhulheti, Dhulandi or Dhulendi, is celebrated by people throwing coloored powder and colored water at each other. Bonfires are lit the day before, also known as Holika Dahan (burning of Holika) or Chhoti Holi (little Holi). The bonfires are lit in memory of the miraculous escape that young Prahlad accomplished when Demoness Holika, sister of Hiranyakashipu, carried him into the fire. Holika was burnt but Prahlad, a staunch devotee of god Vishnu, escaped without any injuries due to his unshakable devotion. Holika Dahan is referred to as Kama Dahanam in Andhra Pradesh.<br />
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  • 30th October 2015, New Delhi, India. Men play cricket in the early morning next to Raj Path near India Gate in New Delhi, India on the 30th October 2015<br />
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  • 30th October 2015, New Delhi, India. Men play cricket in the early morning next to Raj Path near India Gate in New Delhi, India on the 30th October 2015<br />
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  • An elevated view of the Jama Masjid mosque at dusk in Old Delhi on the 5th October 2011<br />
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The Masjid-i Jahan-Namaa (Persian: the 'World-reflecting Mosque'), commonly known as the Jama Masjid of Delhi, is the principal mosque of Old Delhi in India. Commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal, and completed in the year 1656 AD, it is one of the largest and best-known mosques in India. It lies at the origin of a very busy central street of Old Delhi, Chandni Chowk.<br />
The later name, Jaama Masjid, is a reference to the weekly Friday noon congregation prayers of Muslims, which are usually done at a mosque, the "congregational mosque" or "jaama masjid". The courtyard of the mosque can hold up to twenty-five thousand worshipers. The mosque also houses several relics in a closet in the north gate, including a copy of the Qur'an written on deer skin.<br />
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The mosque was the result of the efforts of over 5,000 workers, over a period of six years. The cost incurred on the construction in those times was 10 lakh (1 million) Rupees. Shah Jahan built several important mosques in Delhi, Agra, Ajmer and Lahore. The Jama Masjid's floorplan is very similar to the Jama Masjid at Agra, but the Jama Masjid is the bigger and more imposing of the two. Its majesty is further enhanced because of the high ground that he selected for building this mosque. The architecture and design of the Badshahi Masjid of Lahore built by Shah Jahan's son Aurangzeb in 1673 is closely related to the Jama Masjid in Delhi.<br />
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  • 18th September 2014,New Delhi. A man sleeps under a road bridge with a puppy in New Delhi, India on the 18th September 2014<br />
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Sleeping in the outdoors is common in Asia due to a warmer climate and the fact that personal privacy for sleep is not so culturally ingrained as it is in the West. New Delhi (where most of these images were taken) is a harsh city both in climate and environment and for those working long hours, often in hard manual labour, sleep and rest is something fallen into when exhaustion overwhelms, no matter the place or circumstance. Then there are the homeless, in Delhi figures for them from Government and NGO sources vary wildly from 25,000 to more than 10 times that. Others public sleepers may simply be travellers having a siesta along the way.<br />
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  • 4th December 2014, New Delhi, India. A woman passes in front of a wall lit by candles left by believers who come to pray, make offerings and ask for wishes to be granted by Djinns in the ruins of Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi, India on the 4th December 2014<br />
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People have been coming to Firoz Shah Kotla to leave written notes and offerings for Djinns in the hopes of getting wishes granted since the late 1970's. Jinn, jann or djinn are supernatural creatures in Islamic mythology as well as pre-Islamic Arabian mythology. They are mentioned frequently in the Quran  and other Islamic texts and inhabit an unseen world called Djinnestan. In Islamic theology jinn are said to be creatures with free will, made from smokeless fire by Allah as humans were made of clay, among other things. According to the Quran, jinn have free will, and Iblis abused this freedom in front of Allah by refusing to bow to Adam when Allah ordered angels and jinn to do so. For disobeying Allah, Iblis was expelled from Paradise and called "Shaytan" (Satan).They are usually invisible to humans, but humans do appear clearly to jinn, as they can possess them. Like humans, jinn will also be judged on the Day of Judgment and will be sent to Paradise or Hell according to their deeds. Feroz Shah Tughlaq (r. 1351–88), the Sultan of Delhi, established the fortified city of Ferozabad in 1354, as the new capital of the Delhi Sultanate, and included in it the site of the present Feroz Shah Kotla. Kotla literally means fortress or citadel. 4th December 2014, New Delhi, India. A woman stands by a wall covered with candles as offerings to Djinns in the ruins of Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi, India on the 4th December 2014<br />
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People have been coming to Firoz Shah Kot
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  • A Tamang woman in the doorway of a building in Langtang village, Langtang Valley, Nepal, 30th May 2009. <br />
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According to Dorothea Stumm, a glaciologist at the Nepal-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, a massive hanging glacier cracked when an earthquake struck at 11.56am on the 25th April 2015. The ice formed a cloud that gathered snow and rocks and then funnelled down the mountain, burying Langtang village, and creating an enormous pressurised blast. 400 residents of the village and up to 100 trekkers are believed to have been killed.<br />
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  • 22nd April 2013, Shakarpur, New Delhi, India.  Children study while a metro train passes overhead at a makeshift school under a metro bridge near the Yamuna Bank Metro station in Shakarpur, New Delhi, India on the 22nd April 2013. <br />
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Rajesh Kumar Sharma (40) and Laxmi Chandra (45), started this makeshift school a year ago. Five days a week, he takes out two hours to teach when his younger brother replaces him at his general store in Shakarpur. His students are children of labourers, rickshaw-pullers and farm workers. This is the 3rd site he has used to teach under privileged children in the city, he began in 1997 fifteen years ago. <br />
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  • 13th August 2015, New Delhi, India.  A woman stands before a shrine to Djinns in the ruins of Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi, India on the 13th August  2015. <br />
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A polished sandstone pillar from the 3rd century B.C., one of many pillars of Ashoka left by the Mauryan emperor was moved from Pong Ghati Ambala, Punjab (currently in Haryana) to Delhi under orders of Firoz Shah Tughlaq of Delhi Sultanate, and re-erected in its present location in 1356, it sits atop of a three-tiered arcaded pavilion.<br />
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People have been coming to Firoz Shah Kotla to pray to and leave written notes and offerings for Djinns in the hopes of getting wishes granted since the late 1970's. Jinn, jann or djinn are supernatural creatures in Islamic mythology as well as pre-Islamic Arabian mythology. They are mentioned frequently in the Quran  and other Islamic texts and inhabit an unseen world called Djinnestan. In Islamic theology jinn are said to be creatures with free will, made from smokeless fire by Allah as humans were made of clay, among other things. According to the Quran, jinn have free will, and Iblīs abused this freedom in front of Allah by refusing to bow to Adam when Allah ordered angels and jinn to do so. For disobeying Allah, Iblīs was expelled from Paradise and called "Shayṭān" (Satan).They are usually invisible to humans, but humans do appear clearly to jinn, as they can possess them. Like humans, jinn will also be judged on the Day of Judgment and will be sent to Paradise or Hell according to their deeds. Feroz Shah Tughlaq (r. 1351–88), the Sultan of Delhi, established the fortified city of Ferozabad in 1354, as the new capital of the Delhi Sultanate, and included in it the site of the present Feroz Shah Kotla. Kotla literally means fortress or citadel.
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  • A general view of Langtang Village in the Langtang Valley, Nepal, 30th May 2009<br />
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According to Dorothea Stumm, a glaciologist at the Nepal-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, a massive hanging glacier cracked when an earthquake struck at 11.56am on the 25th April 2015. The ice formed a cloud that gathered snow and rocks and then funnelled down the mountain, burying the village, and creating an enormous pressurised blast. 400 residents of the village and up to 100 trekkers are believed to have been killed.<br />
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  • 4th September 2014, New Delhi, India. An elephant loaded with fodder pillaged from the city's trees is ridden by a handler across a busy road as a passing cyclist clasps his hand to his chest in veneration, New Delhi, India on the 4th September 2014. Elephants are revered in India due to their enshrinement in many and various religious traditions and beliefs. <br />
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Elephant handlers (Mahouts) eke out a living in makeshift camps on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. They survive on a small retainer paid by the elephant owners and by giving rides to passers by. The owners keep all the money from hiring the animals out for religious festivals, events and weddings, they also are involved in the illegal trade of captive elephants. The living conditions and treatment of elephants kept in cities in North India is extremely harsh, the handlers use the banned 'ankush' or bullhook to control the animals through daily beatings, the animals have no proper shelters are forced to walk on burning hot tarmac and stand for hours with their feet chained together. <br />
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  • 20th August 2015, New Delhi, India. View of the semi-ruined mosque as worshippers gather for Namaz in the ruins of Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi, India on the 20th August  2015<br />
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The13th century fortress-city of Firoz Shah Kotla in Delhi is thronged weekly with thousands of supplicants seeking favour from supernatural beings of smokeless fire, - Djinns. These magical entities also known as Jinn, Jann or Genies spring from Islamic mythology as well as pre-Islamic Arabian mythology. They are mentioned frequently in the Quran and other Islamic texts and inhabit an unseen world called Djinnestan. Believers, mostly Muslim but from other faiths too, circumnavigate the ruins clutching dozens of photocopied requests, flower petals, incense, and candles. They visit the numerous niches and alcoves in the catacombs said to be occupied by different djinns and greet and salute the invisible occupants with offerings.  A copy of their requests, often with detailed contact information, photographs and even police reports to bolster the case is left with the ‘Baba’ before moving on to the next where the procedure is repeated - like making applications at different departments of a bureaucracy.
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  • View of the central square at the Jama Masjid mosque in Old Delhi from ground level packed with worshippers, at morning prayers during Eid, 21st September 2009. Eid is a Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. <br />
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The Masjid-i Jahan-Namaa (Persian: , the 'World-reflecting Mosque'), commonly known as the Jama Masjid of Delhi, is the principal mosque of Old Delhi in India. Commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal, and completed in the year 1656 AD, it is one of the largest and best-known mosques in India. It lies at the origin of a very busy central street of Old Delhi, Chandni Chowk.<br />
The later name, Jaama Masjid, is a reference to the weekly Friday noon congregation prayers of Muslims, which are usually done at a mosque, the "congregational mosque" or "jaama masjid". The courtyard of the mosque can hold up to twenty-five thousand worshipers. The mosque also houses several relics in a closet in the north gate, including a copy of the Qur'an written on deer skin.<br />
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The mosque was the result of the efforts of over 5,000 workers, over a period of six years. The cost incurred on the construction in those times was 10 lakh (1 million) Rupees. Shah Jahan built several important mosques in Delhi, Agra, Ajmer and Lahore. The Jama Masjid's floorplan is very similar to the Jama Masjid at Agra, but the Jama Masjid is the bigger and more imposing of the two. Its majesty is further enhanced because of the high ground that he selected for building this mosque. The architecture and design of the Badshahi Masjid of Lahore built by Shah Jahan's son Aurangzeb in 1673 is closely related to the Jama Masjid in Delhi.<br />
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+ 91 11 435 06980<br />
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  • 17th April 2016, New Delhi. A woman sleeps on the floor of a shopping complex in New Delhi, India on the 17th April 2016<br />
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Sleeping in the outdoors is common in Asia due to a warmer climate and the fact that personal privacy for sleep is not so culturally ingrained as it is in the West. New Delhi (where most of these images were taken) is a harsh city both in climate and environment and for those working long hours, often in hard manual labour, sleep and rest is something fallen into when exhaustion overwhelms, no matter the place or circumstance. Then there are the homeless, in Delhi figures for them from Government and NGO sources vary wildly from 25,000 to more than 10 times that. Others public sleepers may simply be travellers having a siesta along the way.<br />
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  • 13th August 2014, Shakarpur, New Delhi, India.  Amarjit Singh (11) standing in a field of his parent's market garden puts on his school uniform before attending a makeshift school under a metro bridge near the Yamuna Bank Metro station in Shakarpur, New Delhi, India on the13th August 2014<br />
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Rajesh Kumar Sharma (born 01/02/1970), started this makeshift school in 2011. Six mornings a week he teaches underprivileged children for three hours while his younger brother replaces him at his general store in Shakarpur. His students are children of labourers, rickshaw-pullers and farm workers. This is the 3rd site he has used to teach under privileged children in the city, he began in 1997. <br />
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  • 17th December 2015, New Delhi, India. A photocopied wish with oil lamps and candles at a shrine dedicated to Djinns in the ruins of Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi, India on the 17th December 2015<br />
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PHOTOGRAPH BY AND COPYRIGHT OF SIMON DE TREY-WHITE a photographer in delhi<br />
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People have been coming to Firoz Shah Kotla to pray to and leave written notes and offerings for Djinns in the hopes of getting wishes granted since the late 1970's. Jinn, jann or djinn are supernatural creatures in Islamic mythology as well as pre-Islamic Arabian mythology. They are mentioned frequently in the Quran  and other Islamic texts and inhabit an unseen world called Djinnestan. In Islamic theology jinn are said to be creatures with free will, made from smokeless fire by Allah as humans were made of clay, among other things. According to the Quran, jinn have free will, and Ibl?s abused this freedom in front of Allah by refusing to bow to Adam when Allah ordered angels and jinn to do so. For disobeying Allah, Ibl?s was expelled from Paradise and called "Shay??n" (Satan).They are usually invisible to humans, but humans do appear clearly to jinn, as they can possess them. Like humans, jinn will also be judged on the Day of Judgment and will be sent to Paradise or Hell according to their deeds. Feroz Shah Tughlaq (r. 1351–88), the Sultan of Delhi, established the fortified city of Ferozabad in 1354, as the new capital of the Delhi Sultanate, and included in it the site of the present Feroz Shah Kotla. Kotla literally means fortress or citadel.
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  • 5th May 2015, Kathmandu, Nepal.  Cremation workers on the ghats attending pyres of earthquake victims at the Pashupatinath Temple on the 5th May 2015, Kathmandu, Nepal.<br />
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The Pashupatinath Temple is a famous, sacred Hindu temple dedicated to Pashupatinath is located on the banks of the Bagmati River 5 kilometres north-east of Kathmandu Valley in the eastern city of Kathmandu the capital of Nepal. This temple is considered one of the sacred temples of Hindu faith .The temple serves as the seat of the national deity, Lord Pashupatinath. This temple complex is on UNESCO World Heritage Sites's list Since 1979.This "extensive Hindu temple precinct" is a "sprawling collection of temples, ashrams, images and inscriptions raised over the centuries along the banks of the sacred Bagmati river" and is included as one of the seven monument groups in UNESCO's designation of Kathmandu Valley as a cultural heritage site. The temple is one of the 275 Paadal Petra Sthalams (Holy Abodes of Shiva) on the continent. Kotirudra Samhita, Chapter 11 on the Shivalingas of the North, in Shiva Purana mentions this Shivalinga as the bestower of all wishes. One of the major Festivals of the temple is Maha Shivaratri on which day over 700,000 devotees visit here.<br />
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An earthquake with magnitude 7.8 occurred near Lamjung, Nepal, 50 miles northeast of the capital Kathmandu at 06:11:26 UTC on Apr 25, 2015. The capital has seen considerable devastation including the nine-story Dharahara Tower, one of Kathmandu's landmarks built by Nepal's royal rulers as a watchtower in the 1800s and a UNESCO-recognised historical monument. It was reduced to rubble and there were reports of people trapped. Portions of historic buildings in the World Heritage gazetted site of Patan have also been destroyed as well as many buildings in the old city. <br />
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  • Tshring Tamang wearing traditional Tibetan dress splits bamboo, in the Langtang Valley, Nepal, 27th May 2009. <br />
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According to Dorothea Stumm, a glaciologist at the Nepal-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, a massive hanging glacier cracked when an earthquake struck at 11.56am on the 25th April 2015. The ice formed a cloud that gathered snow and rocks and then funnelled down the mountain, burying Langtang village, and creating an enormous pressurised blast. 400 residents of the village and up to 100 trekkers are believed to have been killed.<br />
<br />
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  • Traditional Tibetan dress of a Tamang woman in the Langtang Valley, Nepal, 30th May 2009. The 'Pangden' (striped, woven woollen apron) is belted with an ornate brass belt from which hangs a silver medicine spoon.<br />
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According to Dorothea Stumm, a glaciologist at the Nepal-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, a massive hanging glacier cracked when an earthquake struck at 11.56am on the 25th April 2015. The ice formed a cloud that gathered snow and rocks and then funnelled down the mountain, burying Langtang village, and creating an enormous pressurised blast. 400 residents of the village and up to 100 trekkers are believed to have been killed.<br />
<br />
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  • 27th September, 2014, Mehrauli, India. A boy jumps into Gandhak Ki Baoli in Mehrauli,on the 27th September, 2014, Delhi, India<br />
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At the turn of the last century, Delhi had more than 100 baolis, today, many of them have caved in or dried up owing to the declining water table. The number has shrunk to about 15, according to the ASI (Acheological Survey of India). Stepwells (Baolis) are examples of the many types of storage and irrigation tanks that were developed in India, mainly to cope with seasonal fluctuations in water availability. <br />
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  • 6th September 2014, New Delhi, India. An elephant ridden by a mahout squeezes past a gate to a colony in New Rajinder Nagar on its way to a wedding ceremony in New Delhi, India on the 6th September 2014<br />
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Elephant handlers (Mahouts) eke out a living in makeshift camps on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. They survive on a small retainer paid by the elephant owners and by giving rides to passers by. The owners keep all the money from hiring the animals out for religious festivals, events and weddings, they also are involved in the illegal trade of captive elephants. The living conditions and treatment of elephants kept in cities in North India is extremely harsh, the handlers use the banned 'ankush' or bullhook to control the animals through daily beatings, the animals have no proper shelters are forced to walk on burning hot tarmac and stand for hours with their feet chained together. <br />
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  • 1st May 2014, Yamuna River, New Delhi, India. A mahout throws a bundle of grass towards a tethered elephant in the late afternoon while another relaxes on a bench near a bridge over the Yamuna River, New Delhi, India on the 1st May 2014<br />
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Elephant handlers (Mahouts) eke out a living in makeshift camps on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. They survive on a small retainer paid by the elephant owners and by giving rides to passers by. The owners keep all the money from hiring the animals out for religious festivals, events and weddings, they also are involved in the illegal trade of captive elephants. The living conditions and treatment of elephants kept in cities in North India is extremely harsh, the handlers use the banned 'ankush' or bullhook to control the animals through daily beatings, the animals have no proper shelters are forced to walk on burning hot tarmac and stand for hours with their feet chained together. <br />
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  • 10th May 2010, Meerut: Mammu Singh (65) one of India's last official hangmen at his house in Shiv Hari Mandir Colony, Nail Basti, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India, 10th May 2010.<br />
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With the recent sentencing to death by hanging of Ajmal Kasab the sole surviving gunman from the Mumbai attacks in 2008 there is a good chance that if the sentence is carried out within a few years that Mammu Singh will be the hangman. He has expressed a wish to pull the lever and says it will be  'a great service to the entire country , the noose should be tightened around Quasab's neck. Only then will the souls of those who died in the 26/11 attacks rest in peace. It is my ardent desire to ne the one the Maharashtra government calls upon to execute Qasab'.<br />
Singh is an executioner of 30 years standing following on from and to begin with assisting his father Kallu Ram Jallad, he performed his first execution in 1973 and his total is now 15. He was permanently employed as a hangman in 1998 and has been stationed at Meerut's Abdullapur jail ever since on a monthly sallary or Rs 3000.  Together with his father he exectuted the assassins of the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.<br />
Before becoming a hangman Singh used to work as a rickshaw puller and also sold cloth in neighbouring villages. <br />
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  • 4th October 2015, New Delhi, India. A street sweeper in New Delhi, India on the 4th October 2015<br />
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  • PATNA, INDIA, - SEPTEMBER 17: An electricity pole festooned with multiple wires illegally tapping into the power supply in the Police Lines colony in Patna, India on September 17, 2015. <br />
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In Bihar, 30 percent of power is lost to transmission and distribution as well as theft. Of the world’s 1.3 billion people who live without access to power, a quarter — about 300 million — live in rural India in states such as Bihar. India, the third-largest emitter of greenhouses gases after China and the United States, has taken steps to address climate change in advance of the global talks in Paris in 2015 — pledging a steep increase in renewable energy by 2030. But India’s leaders say that the huge challenge of extending electric service to its citizens means that the country must continue to increase its fossil fuel consumption, at least in the near term, on a path that could mean a threefold increase in greenhouse-gas emissions by 2030, according to some estimates. Energy access is worse in rural areas. Bihar, one of India’s poorest states, has a population of 103 million, nearly a third the size of the United States. Fewer have electricity as the primary source of lighting there than in any other place in India, just over 16 percent, according to 2011 census data. Families still light their homes with kerosene lamps and cook on clay stoves with cow-dung patties or kindling.
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  • 4th September 2014, New Delhi, India. An elephant loaded with fodder pillaged from the city's trees is ridden by a handler across a busy road as a passing cyclist clasps his hand to his chest in veneration, New Delhi, India on the 4th September 2014. Elephants are revered in India due to their enshrinement in many and various religious traditions and beliefs. <br />
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Elephant handlers (Mahouts) eke out a living in makeshift camps on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. They survive on a small retainer paid by the elephant owners and by giving rides to passers by. The owners keep all the money from hiring the animals out for religious festivals, events and weddings, they also are involved in the illegal trade of captive elephants. The living conditions and treatment of elephants kept in cities in North India is extremely harsh, the handlers use the banned 'ankush' or bullhook to control the animals through daily beatings, the animals have no proper shelters are forced to walk on burning hot tarmac and stand for hours with their feet chained together. <br />
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  • 27th March 2014, Shakarpur, New Delhi, India.  Laxmi Chandra holding an umbrella writes during a rain shower on a freshly repainted blackboard on the walls of a metro bridge at a makeshift school under a metro bridge near the Yamuna Bank Metro station in Shakarpur, New Delhi, India on the 27th March 2014<br />
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Rajesh Kumar Sharma (born 01/02/1970), started this makeshift school in 2011. Six mornings a week he teaches underprivileged children for three hours while his younger brother replaces him at his general store in Shakarpur. His students are children of labourers, rickshaw-pullers and farm workers. This is the 3rd site he has used to teach under privileged children in the city, he began in 1997. <br />
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  • 11th March 2014, Shakarpur, New Delhi, India. Anil Kumar Lal a volunteer teacher teaches children at a makeshift school under a metro bridge near the Yamuna Bank Metro station in Shakarpur, New Delhi, India on the 11th March 2014<br />
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Rajesh Kumar Sharma (born 01/02/1970), started this makeshift school in 2011. Six mornings a week he teaches underprivileged children for three hours while his younger brother replaces him at his general store in Shakarpur. His students are children of labourers, rickshaw-pullers and farm workers. This is the 3rd site he has used to teach under privileged children in the city, he began in 1997. <br />
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  • 22nd April 2013, Shakarpur, New Delhi, India.  A boy reads from a blackboard out loud for other pupils to repeat at a makeshift school under a metro bridge near the Yamuna Bank Metro station in Shakarpur, New Delhi, India on the 22nd April 2013. <br />
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Rajesh Kumar Sharma (40) and Laxmi Chandra (45), started this makeshift school a year ago. Five days a week, he takes out two hours to teach when his younger brother replaces him at his general store in Shakarpur. The students are children of labourers, rickshaw-pullers and market gardeners. This is the 3rd site he has used to teach under privileged children in the city, he began in 1997 fifteen years ago. <br />
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  • 27th August 2015, New Delhi, India.  A woman reaches through bars to touch the Ashokan Pillar in the ruins of Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi, India on the 27th August 2015. Touching the pillar is believed to bring good luck or grant a wish<br />
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A polished sandstone pillar from the 3rd century B.C., one of many pillars of Ashoka left by the Mauryan emperor was moved from Pong Ghati Ambala, Punjab (currently in Haryana) to Delhi under orders of Firoz Shah Tughlaq of Delhi Sultanate, and re-erected in its present location in 1356, it sits atop of a three-tiered arcaded pavilion.<br />
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People have been coming to Firoz Shah Kotla to pray to and leave written notes and offerings for Djinns in the hopes of getting wishes granted since the late 1970's. Jinn, jann or djinn are supernatural creatures in Islamic mythology as well as pre-Islamic Arabian mythology. They are mentioned frequently in the Quran  and other Islamic texts and inhabit an unseen world called Djinnestan. In Islamic theology jinn are said to be creatures with free will, made from smokeless fire by Allah as humans were made of clay, among other things. According to the Quran, jinn have free will, and Iblīs abused this freedom in front of Allah by refusing to bow to Adam when Allah ordered angels and jinn to do so. For disobeying Allah, Iblīs was expelled from Paradise and called "Shayṭān" (Satan).They are usually invisible to humans, but humans do appear clearly to jinn, as they can possess them. Like humans, jinn will also be judged on the Day of Judgment and will be sent to Paradise or Hell according to their deeds. Feroz Shah Tughlaq (r. 1351–88), the Sultan of Delhi, established the fortified city of Ferozabad in 1354, as the new capital of the Delhi Sultanate, and included in it the site of the present Feroz Shah Kotla. Kotla literally means fortress or citadel.
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  • 16th October 2015, Delhi, India. A man travels in a wheelchair down the centre of Raj Path in Delhi, India on the 16th October 2015.<br />
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Rajpath (meaning "King's Way") is the ceremonial boulevard in New Delhi, India, that runs from Rashtrapati Bhavan on Raisina Hill through Vijay Chowk and India Gate to National Stadium, Delhi. The avenue is lined on both sides by huge lawns, canals and rows of trees. Considered to be one of the most important roads in India, it is where the annual Republic Day parade takes place on 26 January. Janpath (meaning "People's Way") crosses the road. Rajpath runs in east-west direction. Roads from Connaught Place, the financial centre of Delhi, run into Rajpath from north<br />
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  • Female Tamang porters in traditional Tibetan dress having tea in a trailside restaurant in the Langtang Valley, Nepal, 27th May 2009. <br />
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According to Dorothea Stumm, a glaciologist at the Nepal-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, a massive hanging glacier cracked when an earthquake struck at 11.56am on the 25th April 2015. The ice formed a cloud that gathered snow and rocks and then funnelled down the mountain, burying Langtang village, and creating an enormous pressurised blast. 400 residents of the village and up to 100 trekkers are believed to have been killed.<br />
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  • 19th September, 2012, Chandni Chowk,  Hardayal Municipal Public Library in Old Delhi plays host to many stray cats.<br />
This Raj-era library, was instituted by the British in 1862, when it was called the Institute Library. Now housing some 8,000 rare books (of a total of 1,70,000) in a building nearly a century old it has close to 1,200 members and gets several hundred visitors a day. The rare books include a 1677 edition of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World and a Herodotus volume in the original Greek from 1826. But these books, like the library, are currently facing a threat. It has been four months since the library received salaries for its staff, let alone development funds and its feared it will be closed.<br />
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  • Pushkar Horse and  Camel Fair, Pushkar , Rajasthan,  India, 20/11/2012. A camel with a red nose decoration at the Pushkar Horse and  Camel Fair, Pushkar , Rajasthan,  India on the 20th November 2012<br />
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Pushkar Mela , one of Asia's (if not the world’s) largest camel fairs occurs annually during the Hindu month of Kartik (October-November) in the small desert town of Pushkar in Rajasthan, India. Semi-nomadic tribal people with hordes of cattle, camels and horses materialise out of the desert and descend upon the town setting up a vast camp on the outskirts. It runs concurrently with the festival of Kartik Poornima which honours the God Brahma. Its celebrated with particular fervor in Pushkar because it hosts one of the very few Brahma temples in India and culminates with thousands of devout Hindus taking a ritual bath in the sacred Pushkar Lake. Its this melange of pilgrims, musicians, magicians, acrobats, folk dancers, traders, comedians, ‘sadhus’ and tribals that creates a uniquely colourful spectacle transforming the usually sleepy town into an astonishing cultural phenomenon. <br />
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  • Near Pushkar, Rajasthan,  India, 07/11/2013.  Camel herder Bomram sits at a camp fire in the early morning in the desert near Pushkar, Rajasthan, India on the 7th November 2013<br />
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Pushkar Mela , one of Asia's (if not the world’s) largest camel fairs occurs annually during the Hindu month of Kartik (October-November) in the small desert town of Pushkar in Rajasthan, India. Semi-nomadic tribal people with hordes of cattle, camels and horses materialise out of the desert and descend upon the town setting up a vast camp on the outskirts. It runs concurrently with the festival of Kartik Poornima which honours the God Brahma. Its celebrated with particular fervor in Pushkar because it hosts one of the very few Brahma temples in India and culminates with thousands of devout Hindus taking a ritual bath in the sacred Pushkar Lake. Its this melange of pilgrims, musicians, magicians, acrobats, folk dancers, traders, comedians, ‘sadhus’ and tribals that creates a uniquely colourful spectacle transforming the usually sleepy town into an astonishing cultural phenomenon. <br />
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  • The Jama Masjid mosque at dusk in Old Delhi on the 5th October 2011<br />
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The Masjid-i Jahan-Namaa (Persian: the 'World-reflecting Mosque'), commonly known as the Jama Masjid of Delhi, is the principal mosque of Old Delhi in India. Commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal, and completed in the year 1656 AD, it is one of the largest and best-known mosques in India. It lies at the origin of a very busy central street of Old Delhi, Chandni Chowk.<br />
The later name, Jaama Masjid, is a reference to the weekly Friday noon congregation prayers of Muslims, which are usually done at a mosque, the "congregational mosque" or "jaama masjid". The courtyard of the mosque can hold up to twenty-five thousand worshipers. The mosque also houses several relics in a closet in the north gate, including a copy of the Qur'an written on deer skin.<br />
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The mosque was the result of the efforts of over 5,000 workers, over a period of six years. The cost incurred on the construction in those times was 10 lakh (1 million) Rupees. Shah Jahan built several important mosques in Delhi, Agra, Ajmer and Lahore. The Jama Masjid's floorplan is very similar to the Jama Masjid at Agra, but the Jama Masjid is the bigger and more imposing of the two. Its majesty is further enhanced because of the high ground that he selected for building this mosque. The architecture and design of the Badshahi Masjid of Lahore built by Shah Jahan's son Aurangzeb in 1673 is closely related to the Jama Masjid in Delhi.<br />
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  • 12th October 2011,New Delhi, India. The Bara Gumbad ("Big Dome") and mosque against a stormy sky in Lodhi Gardens on the 12th October 2011 in New Delhi, India. The Bara Gumbad consists of a large rubble-construct dome, it may be a tomb or a gateway to an attached  three domed masjid (mosque), both built in 1494 during the reign of Sikander Lodi,<br />
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Lodi Gardens is a park in Delhi, India. Spread over 90 acres. It contains, Mohammed Shah's Tomb, Sikander Lodi's Tomb, Sheesh Gumbad and Bara Gumbad, architectural works of the 15th century Sayyid and Lodis, a Pashtun dynasty which ruled much of Northern India during the 16th century, and the site is now protected by the Archeological Survey of India (ASI).<br />
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  • 26th November 2015, New Delhi, India.  A woman is silhouetted in catacombs of the ruins of Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi, India on the 26th November 2015<br />
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The13th century fortress-city of Firoz Shah Kotla in Delhi is thronged weekly with thousands of supplicants seeking favour from supernatural beings of smokeless fire, - Djinns. These magical entities also known as Jinn, Jann or Genies spring from Islamic mythology as well as pre-Islamic Arabian mythology. They are mentioned frequently in the Quran and other Islamic texts and inhabit an unseen world called Djinnestan. Believers, mostly Muslim but from other faiths too, circumnavigate the ruins clutching dozens of photocopied requests, flower petals, incense, and candles. They visit the numerous niches and alcoves in the catacombs said to be occupied by different djinns and greet and salute the invisible occupants with offerings.  A copy of their requests, often with detailed contact information, photographs and even police reports to bolster the case is left with the ‘Baba’ before moving on to the next where the procedure is repeated - like making applications at different departments of a bureaucracy
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  • 19th March 2015, New Delhi, India. A Sufi 'pir' (master) performs a cleansing rite on a female supplicant in the ruins of Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi, India on the 19th March 2015<br />
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The13th century fortress-city of Firoz Shah Kotla in Delhi is thronged weekly with thousands of supplicants seeking favour from supernatural beings of smokeless fire, - Djinns. These magical entities also known as Jinn, Jann or Genies spring from Islamic mythology as well as pre-Islamic Arabian mythology. They are mentioned frequently in the Quran and other Islamic texts and inhabit an unseen world called Djinnestan. Believers, mostly Muslim but from other faiths too, circumnavigate the ruins clutching dozens of photocopied requests, flower petals, incense, and candles. They visit the numerous niches and alcoves in the catacombs said to be occupied by different djinns and greet and salute the invisible occupants with offerings.  A copy of their requests, often with detailed contact information, photographs and even police reports to bolster the case is left with the ‘Baba’ before moving on to the next where the procedure is repeated - like making applications at different departments of a bureaucracy.
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  • 4th April 2014, Shakarpur, New Delhi, India. Deepak (7) does homework under a light bulb in his home on the Yamuna Bank,  Shakarpur, New Delhi, India on the 4th April 2014<br />
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Deepak goes to makeshift school under a metro bridge, near the Yamuna Bank Metro station in Shakarpur<br />
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Rajesh Kumar Sharma (born 01/02/1970), started this makeshift school in 2011. Six mornings a week he teaches underprivileged children for three hours while his younger brother replaces him at his general store in Shakarpur. His students are children of labourers, rickshaw-pullers and farm workers. This is the 3rd site he has used to teach under privileged children in the city, he began in 1997. <br />
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  • 21st March 2014, Shakarpur, New Delhi, India. Rajesh Kumar Sharma (white shirt) talks with Ravi Kumari (9) and his family at their home on the Yamuna Bank during a home visit, with father Mr Baldev Saika (40, centre) and mother Bhuri (left), Sharkarpur, New Delhi, India on the 21st March 2014.<br />
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Ravi is a regular pupil at a makeshift school under a metro bridge near the Yamuna Bank Metro station in Shakarpur. Rajesh Kumar Sharma (born 01/02/1970), started this makeshift school in 2011. Six mornings a week he teaches underprivileged children for three hours while his younger brother replaces him at his general store in Shakarpur. His students are children of labourers, rickshaw-pullers and farm workers. This is the 3rd site he has used to teach under privileged children in the city, he began in 1997. <br />
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  • 4th May 2015, Kathmandu, Nepal. A Hindu family in mourning for their mother lying on a bier on the cremation ghats at the Pashupatinath Temple complex on the 4th May 2015, Kathmandu, Nepal. Their mother had an operation at a Kathmandu Hospital but when the earthquake struck the hospital ceased to function and as a result she died<br />
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The Pashupatinath Temple is a famous, sacred Hindu temple dedicated to Pashupatinath is located on the banks of the Bagmati River 5 kilometres north-east of Kathmandu Valley in the eastern city of Kathmandu the capital of Nepal. This temple is considered one of the sacred temples of Hindu faith .The temple serves as the seat of the national deity, Lord Pashupatinath. This temple complex is on UNESCO World Heritage Sites's list Since 1979.This "extensive Hindu temple precinct" is a "sprawling collection of temples, ashrams, images and inscriptions raised over the centuries along the banks of the sacred Bagmati river" and is included as one of the seven monument groups in UNESCO's designation of Kathmandu Valley as a cultural heritage site. The temple is one of the 275 Paadal Petra Sthalams (Holy Abodes of Shiva) on the continent. Kotirudra Samhita, Chapter 11 on the Shivalingas of the North, in Shiva Purana mentions this Shivalinga as the bestower of all wishes. One of the major Festivals of the temple is Maha Shivaratri on which day over 700,000 devotees visit here.<br />
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An earthquake with magnitude 7.8 occurred near Lamjung, Nepal, 50 miles northeast of the capital Kathmandu at 06:11:26 UTC on Apr 25, 2015. The capital has seen considerable devastation including the nine-story Dharahara Tower, one of Kathmandu's landmarks built by Nepal's royal rulers as a watchtower in the 1800s and a UNESCO-recognised historical monument. It was reduced to rubble and there were reports of people trapped. Portions of historic buildings in the World Heritage gazetted site of Patan have also been destroyed as well as many buildings in the old city. <br />
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  • A steaming stainless steel mug in a kitchen of a trailside restaurant in the Langtang Valley, Nepal, 27th May 2009. <br />
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According to Dorothea Stumm, a glaciologist at the Nepal-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, a massive hanging glacier cracked when an earthquake struck at 11.56am on the 25th April 2015. The ice formed a cloud that gathered snow and rocks and then funnelled down the mountain, burying Langtang village, and creating an enormous pressurised blast. 400 residents of the village and up to 100 trekkers are believed to have been killed.<br />
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  • 6th May 2015, Kathmandu, Nepal.  Ruku Khattri Chhetri (89) in Ramkot village, near Kathmandu, on the 6th May 2015.<br />
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This mother of 7 lived through the last major earthquake to hit Nepal 81 years ago in 1934. She remembers it clearly, she was 8 years old at that time and was carrying her little 3 year old brother outside in the fields. When the earthquake struck she kneeled down and shielded him to protect him, the ground and nearby buildings shook violently  she saw a cloud of dust rise 'like fog in winter'  from nearby Bimdungar village caused by all the falling buildings, it happened very fast and many people died. She stayed where she was until her grandfather came and found them - as her parents were not available. Her father had jumped from the second story of their house during the earthquake to save himself and broken his leg.<br />
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During the 2015 earthquake she was outside her house and fell to the ground when the earth shook, she found herself covered in dust from her house that had collapsed behind her , she crawled away crying for help and was soon rescued by neighbours. When asked about the future she said  ‘I fear more suffering is to come since I am still alive’ .‘If another earthquake comes I want to die fast, I don’t want to be injured’. She lost one eye to cancer and is all but blind in the other. <br />
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An earthquake with magnitude 7.8 occurred near Lamjung, Nepal, 50 miles northeast of the capital Kathmandu at 06:11:26 UTC on Apr 25, 2015. The capital has seen considerable devastation including the nine-story Dharahara Tower, one of Kathmandu's landmarks built by Nepal's royal rulers as a watchtower in the 1800s and a UNESCO-recognised historical monument. It was reduced to rubble and there were reports of people trapped. Portions of historic buildings in the World Heritage gazetted site of Patan have also been destroyed as well as many buildings in the old city. <br />
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  • 13th Jan 2015, Yamuna River, New Delhi, India. A view of the elephant handlers camp by the Yamuna River at dusk, New Delhi, India on the 13th Jan 2015<br />
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Elephant handlers (Mahouts) eke out a living in makeshift camps on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. They survive on a small retainer paid by the elephant owners and by giving rides to passers by. The owners keep all the money from hiring the animals out for religious festivals, events and weddings, they also are involved in the illegal trade of captive elephants.. The living conditions and treatment of elephants kept in cities in North India is extremely harsh, the handlers use the banned 'ankush' or bullhook to control the animals through daily beatings, the animals have no proper shelters are forced to walk on burning hot tarmac and stand for hours with their feet chained together. <br />
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  • 1st December 2014, New Delhi, India. A boy paddles a raft on the Yamuna River in New Delhi, India on the 1st December 2014<br />
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People eke out a living on the Yamuna River by searching for coins and items they can sell that are thrown into the river by Hindus as offerings<br />
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  • 14th September 2011, Pahar Ganj, Delhi, India. The Love Commandos L-R: Sonu Rangi, Commando Coordinator; Rajesh Malhotra, Delhi State Coordinator; Harsh Malhotra ,Chief Coordinator; Govinda Chand, Delhi State Commando Coordinator; Sunil Sagar, Commando Trainer.<br />
The Love Commandos is a small organisation that was established in July 2010 and is based in Delhi. It is staffed by Indian activists devoted to providing help and assistance to Indian couples facing threats, violence, monetary difficulties and other problems associated with love marriages in India. Specifically they tackle the iniquity of so-called 'honour killings' that are still so common across the country. <br />
The Love Commandos have 2,000 plus volunteers from different spheres of life across the country. While founder Sanjoy Sachdeva is a journalist, his Chief Coordinator Harsh Malhotra is a garment businessman. They also have lawyers, doctors, daily wagers and others as volunteers. They have five centres in the national capital plus there are others in Punjab, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.<br />
So what do they do when they get a distress call?<br />
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"Initially, we try to counsel the couple over the phone. If the matter is serious, then we send out a team to the area, which will take help from the local police to rescue the couple. Then depending on what they want to do, we either marry them off or give them protection till they reach a decision. Most police forces cooperate with us except for the Uttar Pradesh police, which is a shame, because we receive maximum number of distress calls from UP," Sachdeva says.<br />
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  • 25th June 2013, Kesher Kala, India. Mr Faisal Hasan Quadri, 77, stands in the doorway of the Taj-Mahal inspired mausoleum he has built in the town of Kesher Kala, near Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh, India on the 25th June 2013. <br />
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Faisal Hasan Quadri, 77, is building a mausoleum which he refers to as 'yaadgaar' meaning 'in memory of', to honour the memory of his late wife Begum Tajmulli, who died on the 23rd September 2011, aged 73. Quadri, a retired postal clerk began work on the tomb resembling a miniature Taj Mahal, 6 months after Begum died, in February 2012. He has so far spent 9 lakhs (approx £10,000) on it which he has largely funded by sellng a parcel of land. There's more to do to complete the structure and he even wants to establish a garden to surround it but his funds are now limited.<br />
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  • A book based on the 4361 year old ''Shalihotra Samhita" (encyclopedia of the physician Shalihotra) photographed at Dundlod Fort, Dundlod, Rajasthan, India, 14th June 2008. <br />
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The Shalihotra Samhita is a large treatise on the care and management of horses with some 12,000 shlokas in Sanskrit. It is the principal work of Shalihotra (c. 2350 BCE) who was the son of a Brahmin sage. It has been translated into Persian, Arabic, Tibetan and English languages. The work described equine and elephant anatomy, physiology, surgery and diseases with their curative and preventive measures. It elaborated on the body structures of different races of horses, and identified the structural details by which one can determine the age of a horse. Two other works, namely Asva-prashnsa and Asva-lakshana sastram are also attributed to Shalihotra.  Some later authors have named their veterinary works after Shalihotra and others have based their work on his Samhita. Subsequent generations copied, revised and added to Shalihotra's text. Hence the term Shalihotra refers to similar texts in a tradition.<br />
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  • 28th May 2014, Yamuna River, New Delhi, India. A Mahout rides an elephant in the Yamuna river at dusk with a metro train and the Indraprastha Power Station in the background, New Delhi, India on the 28th May 2014<br />
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Elephant handlers (Mahouts) eke out a living in makeshift camps on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. They survive on a small retainer paid by the elephant owners and by giving rides to passers by. The owners keep all the money from hiring the animals out for religious festivals, events and weddings, they also are involved in the illegal trade of captive elephants. The living conditions and treatment of elephants kept in cities in North India is extremely harsh, the handlers use the banned 'ankush' or bullhook to control the animals through daily beatings, the animals have no proper shelters are forced to walk on burning hot tarmac and stand for hours with their feet chained together. <br />
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  • 19th August 2014,New Delhi. A man sleeps on a road divider in New Delhi, India on the 19th August 2014<br />
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Sleeping in the outdoors is common in Asia due to a warmer climate and the fact that personal privacy for sleep is not so culturally ingrained as it is in the West. New Delhi (where most of these images were taken) is a harsh city both in climate and environment and for those working long hours, often in hard manual labour, sleep and rest is something fallen into when exhaustion overwhelms, no matter the place or circumstance. Then there are the homeless, in Delhi figures for them from Government and NGO sources vary wildly from 25,000 to more than 10 times that. Others public sleepers may simply be travellers having a siesta along the way.<br />
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  • 16th August 2014,New Delhi. A boy sleeps on a concrete bench and a dog sleeps underneath it on a railway platform in New Delhi, India on the 16th August 2014<br />
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Sleeping in the outdoors is common in Asia due to a warmer climate and the fact that personal privacy for sleep is not so culturally ingrained as it is in the West. New Delhi (where most of these images were taken) is a harsh city both in climate and environment and for those working long hours, often in hard manual labour, sleep and rest is something fallen into when exhaustion overwhelms, no matter the place or circumstance. Then there are the homeless, in Delhi figures for them from Government and NGO sources vary wildly from 25,000 to more than 10 times that. Others public sleepers may simply be travellers having a siesta along the way.<br />
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  • 19th February 2014,New Delhi. A man sleeps on shelving in a market in Old Delhi, India on the 19th February 2014<br />
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Sleeping in the outdoors is common in Asia due to a warmer climate and the fact that personal privacy for sleep is not so culturally ingrained as it is in the West. New Delhi (where most of these images were taken) is a harsh city both in climate and environment and for those working long hours, often in hard manual labour, sleep and rest is something fallen into when exhaustion overwhelms, no matter the place or circumstance. Then there are the homeless, in Delhi figures for them from Government and NGO sources vary wildly from 25,000 to more than 10 times that. Others public sleepers may simply be travellers having a siesta along the way.<br />
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  • 27th March 2014, Shakarpur, New Delhi, India.  A child jumps for joy as classes end and he leaves a makeshift school under a metro bridge near the Yamuna Bank Metro station in Shakarpur, New Delhi, India on the 27th March 2014<br />
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Rajesh Kumar Sharma (born 01/02/1970), started this makeshift school in 2011. Six mornings a week he teaches underprivileged children for three hours while his younger brother replaces him at his general store in Shakarpur. His students are children of labourers, rickshaw-pullers and farm workers. This is the 3rd site he has used to teach under privileged children in the city, he began in 1997. <br />
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  • 22nd April 2013, Shakarpur, New Delhi, India.  Ajay Kumar (7) offers up his exercise book for marking by Laxmi Chandra at a makeshift school under a metro bridge near the Yamuna Bank Metro station in Shakarpur, New Delhi, India on the 22nd April 2013. <br />
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Rajesh Kumar Sharma (40) and Laxmi Chandra (45), started this makeshift school a year ago. Five days a week, he takes out two hours to teach when his younger brother replaces him at his general store in Shakarpur. His students are children of labourers, rickshaw-pullers and farm workers. This is the 3rd site he has used to teach under privileged children in the city, he began in 1997 fifteen years ago. <br />
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  • 13th March 2014, Shakarpur, New Delhi, India.  Chalk on a paving slab at a makeshift school under a metro bridge near the Yamuna Bank Metro station in Shakarpur, New Delhi, India on the 13th March 2014<br />
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Rajesh Kumar Sharma (born 01/02/1970), started this makeshift school in 2011. Six mornings a week he teaches underprivileged children for three hours while his younger brother replaces him at his general store in Shakarpur. His students are children of labourers, rickshaw-pullers and farm workers. This is the 3rd site he has used to teach under privileged children in the city, he began in 1997. <br />
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  • 10th March 2014, Shakarpur, New Delhi, India.  Mr Gupta, a volunteer teacher marks Dharam Singh (9)'s work at a makeshift school under a metro bridge near the Yamuna Bank Metro station in Shakarpur, New Delhi, India on the 10th March 2014<br />
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Rajesh Kumar Sharma (born 01/02/1970), started this makeshift school in 2011. Six mornings a week he teaches underprivileged children for three hours while his younger brother replaces him at his general store in Shakarpur. His students are children of labourers, rickshaw-pullers and farm workers. This is the 3rd site he has used to teach under privileged children in the city, he began in 1997. <br />
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  • 8th April 2013, Shakarpur, New Delhi, India.  L-R foreground: Mamta, Savitha Kumari (12, centre) and Kunti study at a makeshift school under a metro bridge near the Yamuna Bank Metro station in Shakarpur, New Delhi, India on the 8th April 2013. <br />
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Rajesh Kumar Sharma (born 01/02/1970), started this makeshift school in 2011. Six mornings a week he teaches underprivileged children for three hours while his younger brother replaces him at his general store in Shakarpur. His students are children of labourers, rickshaw-pullers and farm workers. This is the 3rd site he has used to teach under privileged children in the city, he began in 1997.<br />
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  • 13th March 2014, Shakarpur, New Delhi, India. Children study at a makeshift school under a metro bridge near the Yamuna Bank Metro station in Shakarpur, New Delhi, India on the 13th March 2014<br />
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Rajesh Kumar Sharma (born 01/02/1970), started this makeshift school in 2011. Six mornings a week he teaches underprivileged children for three hours while his younger brother replaces him at his general store in Shakarpur. His students are children of labourers, rickshaw-pullers and farm workers. This is the 3rd site he has used to teach under privileged children in the city, he began in 1997. <br />
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  • 13th March 2014, Shakarpur, New Delhi, India. Teachers from left to right: Mr KK Gupta; Rajesh Kumar Sharma and Mr Laxmi Chandra at the blackboards at a makeshift school under a metro bridge near the Yamuna Bank Metro station in Shakarpur, New Delhi, India on the 13th March 2014<br />
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Rajesh Kumar Sharma (born 01/02/1970), started this makeshift school in 2011. Six mornings a week he teaches underprivileged children for three hours while his younger brother replaces him at his general store in Shakarpur. His students are children of labourers, rickshaw-pullers and farm workers. This is the 3rd site he has used to teach under privileged children in the city, he began in 1997. <br />
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  • 26th March 2014, Shakarpur, New Delhi, India. Children walk underneath the Delhi Metro line in the morning on their way to attend a makeshift school under a metro bridge near the Yamuna Bank Metro station in Shakarpur, New Delhi, India on the 26th March 2014<br />
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Rajesh Kumar Sharma (born 01/02/1970), started this makeshift school in 2011. Six mornings a week he teaches underprivileged children for three hours while his younger brother replaces him at his general store in Shakarpur. His students are children of labourers, rickshaw-pullers and farm workers. This is the 3rd site he has used to teach under privileged children in the city, he began in 1997. <br />
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  • 10th March 2014, Shakarpur, New Delhi, India. Two boys walk to the makeshift school under a metro bridge near the Yamuna Bank Metro station in Shakarpur, New Delhi, India on the 10th March 2014<br />
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Rajesh Kumar Sharma (born 01/02/1970), started this makeshift school in 2011. Six mornings a week he teaches underprivileged children for three hours while his younger brother replaces him at his general store in Shakarpur. His students are children of labourers, rickshaw-pullers and farm workers. This is the 3rd site he has used to teach under privileged children in the city, he began in 1997. <br />
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  • 12th November 2015, New Delhi, India. A man receiving the blessings of the divine from a Sufi 'pir' (master) reacts at a shrine dedicated to Djinn worship in the ruins of Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi, India on the 12th November 2015<br />
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People have been coming to Firoz Shah Kotla to pray to and leave written notes and offerings for Djinns in the hopes of getting wishes granted since the late 1970's. Jinn, jann or djinn are supernatural creatures in Islamic mythology as well as pre-Islamic Arabian mythology. They are mentioned frequently in the Quran  and other Islamic texts and inhabit an unseen world called Djinnestan. In Islamic theology jinn are said to be creatures with free will, made from smokeless fire by Allah as humans were made of clay, among other things. According to the Quran, jinn have free will, and Iblīs abused this freedom in front of Allah by refusing to bow to Adam when Allah ordered angels and jinn to do so. For disobeying Allah, Iblīs was expelled from Paradise and called "Shayṭān" (Satan).They are usually invisible to humans, but humans do appear clearly to jinn, as they can possess them. Like humans, jinn will also be judged on the Day of Judgment and will be sent to Paradise or Hell according to their deeds. Feroz Shah Tughlaq (r. 1351–88), the Sultan of Delhi, established the fortified city of Ferozabad in 1354, as the new capital of the Delhi Sultanate, and included in it the site of the present Feroz Shah Kotla. Kotla literally means fortress or citadel.
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  • Tamang women weeding a field of millet in Langtang Village, Langtang Valley, Nepal, 30th May 2009<br />
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According to Dorothea Stumm, a glaciologist at the Nepal-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, a massive hanging glacier cracked when an earthquake struck at 11.56am on the 25th April 2015. The ice formed a cloud that gathered snow and rocks and then funnelled down the mountain, burying the village, and creating an enormous pressurised blast. 400 residents of the village and up to 100 trekkers are believed to have been killed.<br />
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  • Female Tamang porters in traditional Tibetan dress walk together carrying loads in the Langtang Valley, Nepal, 27th May 2009. The 'Pangden' (striped, woven woollen apron) is belted with an ornate brass belt at the waist from which hangs a silver medicine spoon.<br />
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According to Dorothea Stumm, a glaciologist at the Nepal-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, a massive hanging glacier cracked when an earthquake struck at 11.56am on the 25th April 2015. The ice formed a cloud that gathered snow and rocks and then funnelled down the mountain, burying Langtang village, and creating an enormous pressurised blast. 400 residents of the village and up to 100 trekkers are believed to have been killed.<br />
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  • 6th May 2015, Kathmandu, Nepal.  Chandra Bahadur Puri (83) in his home in Bimdungar village, near Kathmandu, on the 6th May 2015.<br />
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He lived through the last major earthquake to hit Nepal 81 years ago in 1934. He remembers nothing of the first earthquake but said their house survived. During the 2015 earthquake he was outside his house sweeping, but fell down because the ground was shaking so violently and crawled a few metres away and in that time the house collapsed, luckily no one was inside at the time.<br />
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An earthquake with magnitude 7.8 occurred near Lamjung, Nepal, 50 miles northeast of the capital Kathmandu at 06:11:26 UTC on Apr 25, 2015. The capital has seen considerable devastation including the nine-story Dharahara Tower, one of Kathmandu's landmarks built by Nepal's royal rulers as a watchtower in the 1800s and a UNESCO-recognised historical monument. It was reduced to rubble and there were reports of people trapped. Portions of historic buildings in the World Heritage gazetted site of Patan have also been destroyed as well as many buildings in the old city. <br />
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  • 4th September 2014, New Delhi, India. An elephant loaded with fodder pillaged from the city's trees is ridden by a handler  across a busy road as a passing cyclist clasps his hand to his chest in veneration, New Delhi, India on the 4th September 2014. Elephants are revered in India due to their enshrinement in many and various religious traditions and beliefs. <br />
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Elephant handlers (Mahouts) eke out a living in makeshift camps on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. They survive on a small retainer paid by the elephant owners and by giving rides to passers by. The owners keep all the money from hiring the animals out for religious festivals, events and weddings, they also are involved in the illegal trade of captive elephants.The living conditions and treatment of elephants kept in cities in North India is extremely harsh, the handlers use the banned 'ankush' or bullhook to control the animals through daily beatings, the animals have no proper shelters are forced to walk on burning hot tarmac and stand for hours with their feet chained together. <br />
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  • 12th September 2014, New Delhi, India. Elephants ridden by mahouts at dusk on a busy road in New Delhi, India on the 12th September 2014<br />
Elephant handlers (Mahouts) eke out a living in makeshift camps on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. They survive on a small retainer paid by the elephant owners and by giving rides to passers by. The owners keep all the money from hiring the animals out for religious festivals, events and weddings, they also are involved in the illegal trade of captive elephants. The living conditions and treatment of elephants kept in cities in North India is extremely harsh, the handlers use the banned 'ankush' or bullhook to control the animals through daily beatings, the animals have no proper shelters are forced to walk on burning hot tarmac and stand for hours with their feet chained together. <br />
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  • 6th September 2014, New Delhi, India. While an elephant handler has breakfast at a restaurant children feed the elephant snacks and try to touch her trunk, near New Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi, India on the 6th September 2014<br />
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Elephant handlers (Mahouts) eke out a living in makeshift camps on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. They survive on a small retainer paid by the elephant owners and by giving rides to passers by. The owners keep all the money from hiring the animals out for religious festivals, events and weddings, they also are involved in the illegal trade of captive elephants. The living conditions and treatment of elephants kept in cities in North India is extremely harsh, the handlers use the banned 'ankush' or bullhook to control the animals through daily beatings, the animals have no proper shelters are forced to walk on burning hot tarmac and stand for hours with their feet chained together. <br />
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  • 25th May 2014, Yamuna River, New Delhi, India. A mahout interacts with an elephant as it bathes under a bridge in the Yamuna river in New Delhi, India on the 25th May 2014<br />
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Elephant handlers (Mahouts) eke out a living in makeshift camps on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. They survive on a small retainer paid by the elephant owners and by giving rides to passers by. The owners keep all the money from hiring the animals out for religious festivals, events and weddings, they also are involved in the illegal trade of captive elephants. The living conditions and treatment of elephants kept in cities in North India is extremely harsh, the handlers use the banned 'ankush' or bullhook to control the animals through daily beatings, the animals have no proper shelters are forced to walk on burning hot tarmac and stand for hours with their feet chained together. <br />
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  • 16th May 2014, Yamuna River, New Delhi, India. A mahout jumps from one elephant to another under a bridge in the Yamuna River, New Delhi, India on the 16th May 2014. <br />
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Elephant handlers (Mahouts) eke out a living in makeshift camps on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. They survive on a small retainer paid by the elephant owners and by giving rides to passers by. The owners keep all the money from hiring the animals out for religious festivals, events and weddings, they also are involved in the illegal trade of captive elephants.. The living conditions and treatment of elephants kept in cities in North India is extremely harsh, the handlers use the banned 'ankush' or bullhook to control the animals through daily beatings, the animals have no proper shelters are forced to walk on burning hot tarmac and stand for hours with their feet chained together. <br />
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  • 26th March 2014, Shakarpur, New Delhi, India. Govind Mauyra (12) copies from a blackboard at a makeshift school under a metro bridge near the Yamuna Bank Metro station in Shakarpur, New Delhi, India on the 26th March 2014<br />
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Rajesh Kumar Sharma (born 01/02/1970), started this makeshift school in 2011. Six mornings a week he teaches underprivileged children for three hours while his younger brother replaces him at his general store in Shakarpur. His students are children of labourers, rickshaw-pullers and farm workers. This is the 3rd site he has used to teach under privileged children in the city, he began in 1997. <br />
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  • Camel kick up dust as they walk through desert scrubland in the early morning on their way to be sold at Pushkar Horse and Camel Fair, Pushkar , Rajasthan,  India, 28/10/2009<br />
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The Indian festival of Kartik Purnima is marked annually in October or  November by a huge cattle and camel fair in Pushkar, Rajasthan .  Pushkar Mela attracts over 200,000 visitors and pilgrims.  Semi-nomadic tribal people with hordes of cattle, camels and horses descend upon the town setting up a vast camp on the  outskirts of Pushkar.  Serious trading takes place before the official opening of the mela between farmers, breeders and camel traders. Events begin four to five days before the full moon and include camel and horse races,  a tug of war between Rajastanis and foreigners, a fashion show for Sari wearers and competitions of horse 'dancing' . Jugglers, acrobats, magicians and folk dancers abound while salesman of equestrian and camel-related merchandise do a roaring trade in the bustling camp.<br />
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  • 15th May 2010, Ramkot: Nuns sstand for a portrait as they tend the gardens at the Druk Gawa Khilwa Buddhist Nunnery, Druk Amitabha Mountain, Ramkot, near Kathmandu, Nepal, 15th May 2010.<br />
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The nunnery founder, his Holiness the present Gyalwang Drukpa instigated Shaolin Kung Fu training for his nuns in 2010 after a visit to Vietnam where he witnessed Vietnamese nuns practicing the martial art. He was told that it helped the Vietnamese nuns concentrate better and made them more self-reliant and recalling how some of his nuns at the Khilwa nunnery were fearful of travelling down from the mountain alone he decided to incorporate defensive Kung Fu training at his own nunnery. Only nuns under 25 are taught due to the physical challenges and there are currently 3 sessions a daystarting in the early morning. The Kung Fu training has energised the nuns and made them fitter, more self confident and alert.<br />
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  • 4th September 2014, New Delhi, India. An elephant loaded with fodder pillaged from the city's trees is ridden by a handler across a busy road as a passing cyclist clasps his hand to his chest in veneration, New Delhi, India on the 4th September 2014. Elephants are revered in India due to their enshrinement in many and various religious traditions and beliefs. <br />
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Elephant handlers (Mahouts) eke out a living in makeshift camps on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. They survive on a small retainer paid by the elephant owners and by giving rides to passers by. The owners keep all the money from hiring the animals out for religious festivals, events and weddings, they also are involved in the illegal trade of captive elephants. The living conditions and treatment of elephants kept in cities in North India is extremely harsh, the handlers use the banned 'ankush' or bullhook to control the animals through daily beatings, the animals have no proper shelters are forced to walk on burning hot tarmac and stand for hours with their feet chained together. <br />
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  • 1st December 2014, New Delhi, India. A boy paddles a raft on the Yamuna River in New Delhi, India on the 1st December 2014<br />
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People eke out a living on the Yamuna River by searching for coins and items they can sell that are thrown into the river by Hindus as offerings<br />
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  • 29th August 2014, Sarojini Nagar, New Delhi, India. Female elephant Gulabo ridden by her handler leads a  Sidhi Budhi Vinayaka procession through the streets as a firework goes off, near the Sree Vinayaka Mandir in New Delhi, India on the 29th August 2014 as part of the Ganesh Chaturthi religious festival<br />
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Ganesh Chaturthi is the Hindu festival celebrated in honour of the god Ganesha, the elephant-headed, remover of obstacles and the god of beginnings and wisdom.<br />
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Elephant handlers (Mahouts) eke out a living in makeshift camps on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. They survive on a small retainer paid by the elephant owners and by giving rides to passers by. The owners keep all the money from hiring the animals out for religious festivals, events and weddings, they also are involved in the illegal trade of captive elephants. The living conditions and treatment of elephants kept in cities in North India is extremely harsh, the handlers use the banned 'ankush' or bullhook to control the animals through daily beatings, the animals have no proper shelters are forced to walk on burning hot tarmac and stand for hours with their feet chained together. <br />
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  • e2016, New Delhi. A man involved in waste collection sleeps sandwiched between polystyrene packing next to his rickshaw in New Delhi, India on the 3rd March 2016.<br />
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Sleeping in the outdoors is common in Asia due to a warmer climate and the fact that personal privacy for sleep is not so culturally ingrained as it is in the West. New Delhi (where most of these images were taken) is a harsh city both in climate and environment and for those working long hours, often in hard manual labour, sleep and rest is something fallen into when exhaustion overwhelms, no matter the place or circumstance. Then there are the homeless, in Delhi figures for them from Government and NGO sources vary wildly from 25,000 to more than 10 times that. Others public sleepers may simply be travellers having a siesta along the way.<br />
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  • 2nd September 2014,New Delhi. A man sleeps on a low wall on the Yamuna River Bank in New Delhi, India on the 2nd September 2014<br />
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Sleeping in the outdoors is common in Asia due to a warmer climate and the fact that personal privacy for sleep is not so culturally ingrained as it is in the West. New Delhi (where most of these images were taken) is a harsh city both in climate and environment and for those working long hours, often in hard manual labour, sleep and rest is something fallen into when exhaustion overwhelms, no matter the place or circumstance. Then there are the homeless, in Delhi figures for them from Government and NGO sources vary wildly from 25,000 to more than 10 times that. Others public sleepers may simply be travellers having a siesta along the way.<br />
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  • 13th March 2014, Shakarpur, New Delhi, India. A boy stretches to write on the top of a blackboard at a makeshift school under a metro bridge, a picture of Saraswati the Hindu Goddess of learning adorns the wall, near the Yamuna Bank Metro station in Shakarpur, New Delhi, India on the 13th March 2014<br />
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Rajesh Kumar Sharma (born 01/02/1970), started this makeshift school in 2011. Six mornings a week he teaches underprivileged children for three hours while his younger brother replaces him at his general store in Shakarpur. His students are children of labourers, rickshaw-pullers and farm workers. This is the 3rd site he has used to teach under privileged children in the city, he began in 1997. <br />
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  • 8th August 2014, Shakarpur, New Delhi, India. A boy sweeps the ground in front of the blackboards before class begins at a makeshift school under a metro bridge near the Yamuna Bank Metro station in Shakarpur, New Delhi, India on the 8th August 2014<br />
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Rajesh Kumar Sharma (born 01/02/1970), started this makeshift school in 2011. Six mornings a week he teaches underprivileged children for three hours while his younger brother replaces him at his general store in Shakarpur. His students are children of labourers, rickshaw-pullers and farm workers. This is the 3rd site he has used to teach under privileged children in the city, he began in 1997. <br />
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  • 19th November 2015, New Delhi, India. A man tends a shrine dedicated to Djinn worship in the ruins of Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi, India on the 19th November 2015<br />
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People have been coming to Firoz Shah Kotla to pray to and leave written notes and offerings for Djinns in the hopes of getting wishes granted since the late 1970's. Jinn, jann or djinn are supernatural creatures in Islamic mythology as well as pre-Islamic Arabian mythology. They are mentioned frequently in the Quran  and other Islamic texts and inhabit an unseen world called Djinnestan. In Islamic theology jinn are said to be creatures with free will, made from smokeless fire by Allah as humans were made of clay, among other things. According to the Quran, jinn have free will, and Iblīs abused this freedom in front of Allah by refusing to bow to Adam when Allah ordered angels and jinn to do so. For disobeying Allah, Iblīs was expelled from Paradise and called "Shayṭān" (Satan).They are usually invisible to humans, but humans do appear clearly to jinn, as they can possess them. Like humans, jinn will also be judged on the Day of Judgment and will be sent to Paradise or Hell according to their deeds. Feroz Shah Tughlaq (r. 1351–88), the Sultan of Delhi, established the fortified city of Ferozabad in 1354, as the new capital of the Delhi Sultanate, and included in it the site of the present Feroz Shah Kotla. Kotla literally means fortress or citadel.
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  • 2nd April 2015, New Delhi, India. Women pray at a shrine dedicated to Djinn worship in the ruins of Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi, India on the 2nd April 2015<br />
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People have been coming to Firoz Shah Kotla to leave written notes and offerings for Djinns in the hopes of getting wishes granted since the late 1970's. <br />
Feroz Shah Tughlaq (r. 1351–88), the Sultan of Delhi, established the fortified city of Ferozabad in 1354, as the new capital of the Delhi Sultanate, and included in it the site of the present Feroz Shah Kotla. Kotla literally means fortress or citadel. The pillar, also called obelisk or Lat is an Ashoka Column, attributed to Mauryan ruler Ashoka. The 13.1 metres high column, made of polished sandstone and dating from the 3rd Century BC, was brought from Ambala in 14th century AD under orders of Feroz Shah. It was installed on a three-tiered arcaded pavilion near the congregational mosque, inside the Sultanate's fort. In centuries that followed, much of the structure and buildings near it were destroyed as subsequent rulers dismantled them and reused the spoil as building materials.
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  • 2nd April 2015, New Delhi, India. Sunlight streams through an arched doorway as a woman prays at a shrine dedicated to Djinn worship in the ruins of Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi, India on the 2nd April 2015<br />
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People have been coming to Firoz Shah Kotla to leave written notes and offerings for Djinns in the hopes of getting wishes granted since the late 1970's. Jinn, jann or djinn are supernatural creatures in Islamic mythology as well as pre-Islamic Arabian mythology. They are mentioned frequently in the Quran  and other Islamic texts and inhabit an unseen world called Djinnestan. In Islamic theology jinn are said to be creatures with free will, made from smokeless fire by Allah as humans were made of clay, among other things. According to the Quran, jinn have free will, and Iblis abused this freedom in front of Allah by refusing to bow to Adam when Allah ordered angels and jinn to do so. For disobeying Allah, Iblis was expelled from Paradise and called "Shaytan" (Satan).They are usually invisible to humans, but humans do appear clearly to jinn, as they can possess them. Like humans, jinn will also be judged on the Day of Judgment and will be sent to Paradise or Hell according to their deeds. Feroz Shah Tughlaq (r. 1351–88), the Sultan of Delhi, established the fortified city of Ferozabad in 1354, as the new capital of the Delhi Sultanate, and included in it the site of the present Feroz Shah Kotla. Kotla literally means fortress or citadel.
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  • 20th November 2014, New Delhi, India. Believers pray, make offerings and ask for wishes to be granted by Djinns in the ruins of Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi, India on the 20th November 2014<br />
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PHOTOGRAPH BY AND COPYRIGHT OF SIMON DE TREY-WHITE a photographer in delhi<br />
+ 91 98103 99809. Email: simon@simondetreywhite.com<br />
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People have been coming to Firoz Shah Kotla to leave written notes and offerings for Djinns in the hopes of getting wishes granted since the late 1970's. <br />
Feroz Shah Tughlaq (r. 1351–88), the Sultan of Delhi, established the fortified city of Ferozabad in 1354, as the new capital of the Delhi Sultanate, and included in it the site of the present Feroz Shah Kotla. Kotla literally means fortress or citadel. The pillar, also called obelisk or Lat is an Ashoka Column, attributed to Mauryan ruler Ashoka. The 13.1 metres high column, made of polished sandstone and dating from the 3rd Century BC, was brought from Ambala in 14th century AD under orders of Feroz Shah. It was installed on a three-tiered arcaded pavilion near the congregational mosque, inside the Sultanate's fort. In centuries that followed, much of the structure and buildings near it were destroyed as subsequent rulers dismantled them and reused the spolia as building materials.
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  • At dawn Khiv Raj Gurjar  does Power Yoga poses and stretches while balancing on a BMX bike on a rocky outcrop outside Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, 21st May 2009.<br />
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 Gurjar (57, born 05/12/48) is from Jodhpur, Rajastan. He has been fanatical about fitness all his life and established his own gym in Jodhpur. He was National Cycling Champion in 1972, player soccer at National level from 1966-67 and participated in the official Asian Body Building Championship in Taiwan in 1999 amongst many achievements. From around 2006 he began concentrating on his feats of balancing at great height on his BMX bike with no safety measures. He performs 17 yoga Asana's; 7 poses; 7 stretches and 5 balance moves in his routine.<br />
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PHOTOGRAPH BY SIMON DE TREY-WHITE / BARCROFT MEDIA
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  • 30th April 2015, Sindhupal Chowk District, Nepal. Leela Devii Bharati (86) in Bharatigaun village, Sindhupal Chowk District, on the 30th April 2015. <br />
She lived through the last major earthquake to hit Nepal 81 years ago in 1934. <br />
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Sindhupalchowk District has seen around 2100 deaths as of 3rd May 2015 which is nearly a third of all fatalities recorded in Nepal from the earthquake with magnitude 7.8 that occurred near Lamjung, Nepal, 50 miles northeast of the capital Kathmandu at 06:11:26 UTC on Apr 25, 2015. The capital has seen considerable devastation including the nine-story Dharahara Tower, one of Kathmandu's landmarks built by Nepal's royal rulers as a watchtower in the 1800s and a UNESCO-recognised historical monument. It was reduced to rubble and there were reports of people trapped. Portions of historic buildings in the World Heritage gazetted site of Patan have also been destroyed as well as many buildings in the old city. <br />
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  • 30th April 2015, Sindhupal Chowk District, Nepal. Gaja Raj Bharati (82) in Bharatigaun village, Sindhupal Chowk District, on the 30th April 2015. <br />
He lived through the last major earthquake to hit Nepal 81 years ago in 1934. <br />
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Sindhupalchowk District has seen around 2100 deaths as of 3rd May 2015 which is nearly a third of all fatalities recorded in Nepal from the earthquake with magnitude 7.8 that occurred near Lamjung, Nepal, 50 miles northeast of the capital Kathmandu at 06:11:26 UTC on Apr 25, 2015. The capital has seen considerable devastation including the nine-story Dharahara Tower, one of Kathmandu's landmarks built by Nepal's royal rulers as a watchtower in the 1800s and a UNESCO-recognised historical monument. It was reduced to rubble and there were reports of people trapped. Portions of historic buildings in the World Heritage gazetted site of Patan have also been destroyed as well as many buildings in the old city. <br />
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  • 25th May 2014, Yamuna River, New Delhi, India. Elephant handlers scrub an elephant and chat as it bathes under a bridge in the Yamuna river in New Delhi, India on the 25th May 2014. The river is terribly polluted and deemed only fit for industrial cooling, the elephants cannot drink it<br />
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Elephant handlers (Mahouts) eke out a living in makeshift camps on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. They survive on a small retainer paid by the elephant owners and by giving rides to passers by. The owners keep all the money from hiring the animals out for religious festivals, events and weddings, they also are involved in the illegal trade of captive elephants.The living conditions and treatment of elephants kept in cities in North India is extremely harsh, the handlers use the banned 'ankush' or bullhook to control the animals through daily beatings, the animals have no proper shelters are forced to walk on burning hot tarmac and stand for hours with their feet chained together. <br />
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PHOTOGRAPH BY AND COPYRIGHT OF SIMON DE TREY-WHITE<br />
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  • 6th September 2014, New Delhi, India. Celebrants dance in the street around an elephant handler and groom atop a prostate elephant decorated for an Indian wedding at New Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi, India on the 6th September 2014<br />
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Elephant handlers (Mahouts) eke out a living in makeshift camps on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. They survive on a small retainer paid by the elephant owners and by giving rides to passers by. The owners keep all the money from hiring the animals out for religious festivals, events and weddings, they also are involved in the illegal trade of captive elephants. The living conditions and treatment of elephants kept in cities in North India is extremely harsh, the handlers use the banned 'ankush' or bullhook to control the animals through daily beatings, the animals have no proper shelters are forced to walk on burning hot tarmac and stand for hours with their feet chained together. <br />
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PHOTOGRAPH BY AND COPYRIGHT OF SIMON DE TREY-WHITE<br />
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  • 25th May 2014, Yamuna River, New Delhi, India. An elephant handler folds his clothes on a small island in the Yamuna river in New Delhi, India on the 25th May 2014<br />
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Elephant handlers (Mahouts) eke out a living in makeshift camps on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. They survive on a small retainer paid by the elephant owners and by giving rides to passers by. The owners keep all the money from hiring the animals out for religious festivals, events and weddings, they also are involved in the illegal trade of captive elephants.The living conditions and treatment of elephants kept in cities in North India is extremely harsh, the handlers use the banned 'ankush' or bullhook to control the animals through daily beatings, the animals have no proper shelters are forced to walk on burning hot tarmac and stand for hours with their feet chained together. <br />
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  • 7th September, 2012, Chandni Chowk, Old Delhi, India. The Hardayal Municipal Public Library in Old Delhi, India<br />
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This Raj-era library, was instituted by the British in 1862, when it was called the Institute Library. Now housing some 8,000 rare books (of a total of 1,70,000) in a building nearly a century old it has close to 1,200 members and gets several hundred visitors a day. The rare books include a 1677 edition of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World and a Herodotus volume in the original Greek from 1826. But these books, like the library, are currently facing a threat. It has been four months since the library received salaries for its staff, let alone development funds and its feared it will be closed.<br />
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  • Om Prakash 26 year old Horse Trainer 'tent pegging' (spearing tent peg sized pieces of foam with a lance) on Mawari mare Narayani (7), The Marwari Bloodlines stud farm in Dundlod, Rajasthan, India, 14th June 2008. Tent pegging is an exercise or sport with its roots on battlefields of the past when lances were used as weapons from horseback<br />
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Raghuvendra Singh Dundlod is co-owner of the Marwari Bloodlines stud farm in Dundlod, dedicated to the preservation and international recognition of the indigenous horses of India. Of these horses the Mawari is considered the most regal. Its defining characteristics are the unique lyre shaped ears which can rotate 180 degrees individually or together; they are one of the most ancient and purest breeding lines; they have endurance considered to be on a par with Arabian horses; they were bred in India by the 12th century Marwar rulers for battle in which they excelled; known for particularly for its loyalty, speed and stamina. The breed came to the point extinction during the Raj as a result of British persecution and numbers remained critically low until the formation of the Indigenous Horse Society of India in 1996. The breed remains threatened to this day.<br />
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  • 2nd September 2014, Yamuna River, New Delhi, India. An elephant ridden by a handler descends steps and passes Hindu worshippers on the 5th day of the Ganesh Chaturthi religious festival at the Yamuna River, New Delhi, India on the 2nd September 2014<br />
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Ganesh Chaturthi is the Hindu festival celebrated in honour of the god Ganesha, the elephant-headed, remover of obstacles and the god of beginnings and wisdom.<br />
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Elephant handlers (Mahouts) eke out a living in makeshift camps on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. They survive on a small retainer paid by the elephant owners and by giving rides to passers by. The owners keep all the money from hiring the animals out for religious festivals, events and weddings, they also are involved in the illegal trade of captive elephants.The living conditions and treatment of elephants kept in cities in North India is extremely harsh, the handlers use the banned 'ankush' or bullhook to control the animals through daily beatings, the animals have no proper shelters are forced to walk on burning hot tarmac and stand for hours with their feet chained together. <br />
<br />
PHOTOGRAPH BY AND COPYRIGHT OF SIMON DE TREY-WHITE<br />
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  • 14th September 2015, New Delhi. A guard/driver sleeps in front of dust-sheet covered cars in New Delhi, India on the 14th September 2015<br />
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Sleeping in the outdoors is common in Asia due to a warmer climate and the fact that personal privacy for sleep is not so culturally ingrained as it is in the West. New Delhi (where most of these images were taken) is a harsh city both in climate and environment and for those working long hours, often in hard manual labour, sleep and rest is something fallen into when exhaustion overwhelms, no matter the place or circumstance. Then there are the homeless, in Delhi figures for them from Government and NGO sources vary wildly from 25,000 to more than 10 times that. Others public sleepers may simply be travellers having a siesta along the way.<br />
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PHOTOGRAPH BY AND COPYRIGHT OF SIMON DE TREY-WHITE, photographer in Delhi<br />
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  • 28th May 2015, New Delhi. A boy sleeps on a police barrier in New Delhi, India on the 28th May 2015<br />
<br />
Sleeping in the outdoors is common in Asia due to a warmer climate and the fact that personal privacy for sleep is not so culturally ingrained as it is in the West. New Delhi (where most of these images were taken) is a harsh city both in climate and environment and for those working long hours, often in hard manual labour, sleep and rest is something fallen into when exhaustion overwhelms, no matter the place or circumstance. Then there are the homeless, in Delhi figures for them from Government and NGO sources vary wildly from 25,000 to more than 10 times that. Others public sleepers may simply be travellers having a siesta along the way.<br />
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<br />
PHOTOGRAPH BY AND COPYRIGHT OF SIMON DE TREY-WHITE, photographer in Delhi<br />
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+ 91 98103 99809<br />
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  • 19th August 2014, New Delhi. A man sleeps on a railway cart at Nizamuddin Railway Station in New Delhi, India on the 19th August 2014<br />
<br />
Sleeping in the outdoors is common in Asia due to a warmer climate and the fact that personal privacy for sleep is not so culturally ingrained as it is in the West. New Delhi (where most of these images were taken) is a harsh city both in climate and environment and for those working long hours, often in hard manual labour, sleep and rest is something fallen into when exhaustion overwhelms, no matter the place or circumstance. Then there are the homeless, in Delhi figures for them from Government and NGO sources vary wildly from 25,000 to more than 10 times that. Others public sleepers may simply be travellers having a siesta along the way.<br />
 <br />
<br />
PHOTOGRAPH BY AND COPYRIGHT OF SIMON DE TREY-WHITE, photographer in Delhi<br />
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+ 91 98103 99809<br />
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  • 19th February 2014,New Delhi. A man sleeps on a wall in Old Delhi, India on the 19th February 2014<br />
<br />
Sleeping in the outdoors is common in Asia due to a warmer climate and the fact that personal privacy for sleep is not so culturally ingrained as it is in the West. New Delhi (where most of these images were taken) is a harsh city both in climate and environment and for those working long hours, often in hard manual labour, sleep and rest is something fallen into when exhaustion overwhelms, no matter the place or circumstance. Then there are the homeless, in Delhi figures for them from Government and NGO sources vary wildly from 25,000 to more than 10 times that. Others public sleepers may simply be travellers having a siesta along the way.<br />
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PHOTOGRAPH BY AND COPYRIGHT OF SIMON DE TREY-WHITE, photographer in Delhi<br />
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  • 24th March 2014, Shakarpur, New Delhi, India. Rajesh Kumar Sharma marks the work of a student at his school under a metro bridge on the Yamuna Bank, New Delhi, India on the 24th March 2014<br />
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Rajesh Kumar Sharma (born 01/02/1970), started this makeshift school in 2011. Six mornings a week he teaches underprivileged children for three hours while his younger brother replaces him at his general store in Shakarpur. His students are children of labourers, rickshaw-pullers and farm workers. This is the 3rd site he has used to teach under privileged children in the city, he began in 1997. <br />
<br />
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