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Images by Joy Parker
Texts by Robert Leach
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Gouache on paper, 50cm by 35cm
A Ferrari Through India
Step into my Ferarri (Kochi)
Auto-rickshaw drivers all across India often refer to their vehicles humorously as "Ferraris"...
Passage Way (Kochi)
The water waits
In the dusk light
In the ash light
In the silver light
There's no staying
No home
-Away
Divali (Kochi)
Divali is the Hindu festival of light associated with the goddess Lakshmi.
To Madurai (Tamil Nadu)
The huge temple at Madurai, dedicated to the goddess Meenakshi, is a place of pilgrimage for many Hindus
Ficus Religiosa (Periyar)
Ficus religiosa is the sacred fig, or bo tree
Theyyam (Kunnur)
Theyyam is the traditional ritual performance of northern Kerala
The Kite in the Sky (South India)
Common birds of India include: kite, kingfisher, drongo, egret.
Who are you? (Sunderbans)
The Sunderbans is the delta at the mouth of the Ganga and Brahmaputra rivers
City of Love, City of Dreadful Nights
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Nobel Prize winner for literature, was born near Kolkata in Bengal, where his work is still highly valued.
Knowledge (Kolkata)
Krishna and Radha are the gods especially associated with the love; Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal in memory of his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal; Lord Curzon was the British Viceroy of India, 1899-1905
Jai Ma Kali (Kolkata)
"jai ma Kali" means "Victory to Mother Kali"
Text translated into Bengali;
World Mother
And Kali danced
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