Ashwin - I especially like the second image in this series; the rich saturated gold in the background gives a still, humid atmosphere to this summer nocturne.
However, the image above is quite a co-incidence for me. Just today I read a brief statement by Dayanita Singh, a photo-documentarian in India who has set about to record the present day changes in her country's culture as many of her fellow citizens - and peers - climb from middle, to upper middle, to upper class status. Says she: "I get furious when foreign photographers reduce India to blobs of colour and exotica". You seem to have captured quite elegantly what she rails against. I'm left wandering about the moment of truth in this image. Are these city dwellers at the shore for their daily ablutions, or are they there to serve the "foreign photographer's" need for another stereotypical moment?
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