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My Scholarship entry - Life on the Old Delhi streets

INDIA | Sunday, 13 January 2013 | Views [699] | View Larger Image

The tea break - Two friends have a tea break while the life goes on around them. Tea, introduced during the British rule, is the most popular drink all over India and tea breaks are a time to relax and socialise. A tea break can involve discussions of all type- business ideas, current affairs and politics, social issues, the day's news, sports, movies - basically anything and everything under the sun.

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Monsoon moods - The reflection of the Jama Masjid tomb, along with that of a rickshaw puller, is visible in a shallow pit in an Old Delhi street. Monsoon in India is a time of extremes, joys and hardships both. While the nice weather gives much needed respite from the long hard summer, rains spells doom for people whose life is dependent on the crowd on streets. The tomb is under repair while the rickshaw puller has to wait for passengers, who are in scarcity at this time of year.

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It's a dog's life - A street dog sleeps on the divider of an Old Delhi street. The scene is symbolic of people's apathy towards stray animals. Street dogs have a life of loneliness and hardships, have to beg and fight for food, are traumatized by frequent fights amongst them, heavy traffic and people's often cruel and harsh behaviour. Most of them are scarred for life.

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My Scholarship entry - Life on the Old Delhi streets

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