{"id":1995,"date":"2010-06-10T23:21:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T18:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2010-06-10T23:21:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T18:21:53","slug":"reds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2010\/06\/10\/reds\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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a farm worker in Nepal.<\/p>\n

\"P1056246\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A women’s group in Himachal Pradesh that was gathering that day to work out how to get a road to their village.<\/p>\n

\"Mendicant<\/a><\/p>\n

A sadhu outside the Kizhaperumpallam temple – one of the sacred Navagrahas, plus a temple to the Lord of the Universe Mahadeva.<\/p>\n

\"tail-lights\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Tail lights reflected in the rain, Mumbai !<\/p>\n

\"woman\"<\/a><\/p>\n

a woman going to work – Mumbai<\/p>\n

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\nA tomato seller, Mumbai<\/p>\n

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and the little flower girl – selling roses in the rain, Mumbai<\/p>\n

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 ?<\/p>\n