September 15, 2011

Generation Gap

I captured this picture during my travels in rural Karnataka. I visited a small tomb shrine of Siddis and came across this mendicant with a young visitor. The lifestyle and age of these two men are widely different and they clearly belong to different worlds, but the shrine brings them together and makes them stand shoulder to shoulder. I believe this kind of phenomenon where tradition meets modernity can happen only in India.

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