Fredrik Renander - PhotojournalistFredrik Renander - PhotojournalistPhoto features and reportages from around the world. From a Swedish photojournalist based in India.
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A Daughter Lost
2007-02-23 19:55:09 Kumar and Bakyalakshmi used to live in Annan Koil, a small fishing community about 200 km south of Madras in southern India, before the village was demolished by the tsunami. After fifteen years of marriage they had one child; a five year old daughter. She was swept away by the sea that day. More About: Lost , Daughter
Tsunami Aftermath in India
2007-02-23 19:55:09 When a tsunami struck parts of Asia and Africa on December 26, 2004, the tragedy would slowly reveal itself as one of the most devastating natural disasters in human history. In its aftermath it left behind enormous suffering and an unimaginable number of dead and homeless people. In India around 15.000 people lost their lives, most of them in the southern state of Tamil Nadu where poor fishing communities, living in simple huts on the beaches, stood little chance to defy the forces of nature. More About: Tsunami , Math , After , Erma
Pushkar Camel Fair
2007-02-23 19:55:09 For a few days every year, the small Indian town of Push kar transforms from a sleepy desert outpost to a bustling spectacle when it hosts the epic camel fair. Tens of thousands of villagers, some who have walked for many days with their camels through the desert, join the fair to trade their livestock. More About: Fair , Camel
Kashmir Conflict
2007-02-23 19:55:09 In 1947, when the new nations of India and Pakistan gained independence and the British colonists left the south Asian subcontinent, Kashmir was supposed to remain an autonomous region. However, soon after independence, Pakistani raiders began infiltrating the Kashmir valley. The leader of Kashmir called for help and India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, sent troops and signed a UN resolution with the promise of withdrawing once the task was completed. The promise was broken and the troops stayed. Since then rigged elections, massive human rights violations, and false promises have been common practices. The Kashmiris have found themselves caught in the rivalry between two nations, both claiming full supremacy of Kashmir, in what some influential world leaders call the most alarming conflict on earth due to both nations? nuclear weapon arsenals. India and Pakistan have been on the verge of full scale war several times and so far around 80.000 people have lost their lives ... More About: Conflict
City of Widows
2007-02-23 19:55:09 In traditional Indian society, a woman loses her value the day her husband dies. Unlike a man she is not allowed to remarry, and from that day onwards, especially in the more traditional communities, she is expected to live an ascetic life, shave her head and sleep on the floor, and to spend the rest of her days praying for her husband's departed soul. She is forbidden to wear colorful clothes, jewelry, or to eat meat, and she is not allowed to own property. Many of the widows, feeling they have become a burden in their families or simply by being kicked out from their houses, seek refuge in Vrindavan. Being the birthplace of the Hindu god Krishna they come with the hope for his protection. Many of them stay until they die, living their lives in extreme poverty and despair. More About: City
The Char Dham Yatra
2007-02-23 19:55:09 In the very northern parts of the Indian state of Uttaranchal, near the Tibetan border, is the source of the Ganges known as Gaumukh, the "cow's mouth". Every year thousands of holy men, pilgrims, and tourists complete the trek up in the Himalayan mountains to witness the origin of the river that has such gigantic significance in the lives of many Indians. More About: Yatra , Char
Rishikesh
More articles from this author:2007-02-23 19:55:09 Rishikesh in northern India is known as the 'Yoga Capital of the World'. The small town on the foot hills of the Himalayas was placed on the world map when The Beatles came here to study Indian philosophy and meditation in the sixties. The Beatles, during the height of their fame, did what many of the generation's young people who had joined the hippie movement did; they dropped out of western society for a while to seek refuge and answers to life's eternal questions in India. The hippie movement has since long vanished, but Rishikesh keeps attracting a vast number of westerners coming to learn the ancient Indian art of Yoga. More About: Hike , Rishikesh , Kesh 1, 2 |
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