Not the problem facing a third of Indian districts – but the colour. It is quite fascinating, how much of red pops up when you decide to see India through a view finder.

When i first began working in television, one of the no-no colours was red (the other was white) – both were supposed to cause video noise on telecast. But, later I understood that it was a problem with the way the colours were lit, and the expertise of the cameraman – not the colours in themselves.

when you travel India and neighbouring countries, you see a lot of variants of red – and i love the contrast with the browns and the greens, and click. Here are some of my favourites

This is a Laman woman, somewhere near Ahmednagar – Maharashtra. The Laman’s were traditionally salt selling nomadic. But post independence they were given land and became settled. Their costumes tend to have coins sewn into them, as well as mirrors.

a farm worker in Nepal.

A women’s group in Himachal Pradesh that was gathering that day to work out how to get a road to their village.

A sadhu outside the Kizhaperumpallam temple – one of the sacred Navagrahas, plus a temple to the Lord of the Universe Mahadeva.

Tail lights reflected in the rain, Mumbai !

a woman going to work – Mumbai

A tomato seller, Mumbai

and the little flower girl – selling roses in the rain, Mumbai

Of course, no post on red will be complete without one of my favorite ads of all times – the Coke ad from the 1996 world cup – the colour of passion is red, with Nusrat on the music track – what more can you ask for ?