Fredrik Renander - PhotojournalistFredrik Renander - PhotojournalistPhoto features and reportages from around the world. From a Swedish photojournalist based in India.
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India's First Ice Bar
2010-12-19 17:40:00 The nightclub 21 Fahrenheit opened up in late 2009 in Mumbai and is India's first "ice bar". It's been popular ever since. Some of the guests travel from other parts of India to experience the exotic cold and around 70% of the visitors have never experienced freezing temeratures earlier. The name comes from the temperature which is kept inside (equaling -6 degrees celsius).
Indian Wedding in Delhi (slide show)
2010-09-17 11:20:00 A slide show with photos from a 3 day long Indian wedding in Delhi . (You might be asked to accept a script before the slide show can be played.) More About: Wedding , Show , Slide
Kerala
2010-07-06 17:00:00 Kerala is a fairly small state in the south-western corner of India, a narrow fertile strip of lush tropical land squeezed in between the Lakshadweep sea and the Cardamom Hills. It's unique among Indian states in that it has a literacy rate above 90% (as compared to the national average of 65%), is considered the least corrupt, has comparatively well functioning and publicly funded healthcare and educational systems, and is the only state where female feticides are uncommon with more females than males being born. Its illustrious backwaters, a labyrinthine of interconnected rivers, canals and lakes forming more than 900 km of waterways, lure thousands of tourists from around the world each year. More About: Kerala
Dubai
2010-02-19 18:40:00 Dubai is a city that has literally risen from the desert. In less than 10 years, where there was once only sand, a completely new city has been built just to the west of its old city center, much to the world's surprise and fascination. More About: Dubai
Lebanon and its Uncertain Future
2010-02-06 14:00:00 Lebanon has for thousands of years been an important crossroad between the east and west and has been influenced by many different civilazations. Many scars are still visible througout the country from the many conflicts its people has had to endure in recent times: perhaps most importantly the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990), and the Israel - Hezbollah war in 2006 which saw over 100,000 shells being dropped over many parts of the country, killing and wounding thousands of civilians and destroying much of Lebanon's infrastructure. New civil wars have been dangeriously close at breaking out again on several occasions. In the summer of 2008, armed Hezbollah guerrilla soldiers stormed Beirut and seized control over large parts of the city in the worst internal conflict since the civil war, before negotiations lead to an agreement being signed in Doha and Hezbollah withdrew from the city after 13 days. After the elections in June of 2009, a struggle for minister posts meant a govenm... More About: Lebanon , Future
Damascus
2010-01-29 17:15:00 Syria's capital Damascus, also known as the "City of Jasmine", has a history dating back to circa 9000 BC and is considered to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world.
Damascus Gate - The world's largest restaurant
2010-01-17 22:15:00 The Damascus Gate restaurant is located in the outskirts of Damascus in Syria and was recently recognized as the world's largest restaurant by the Guinness World Records. The restaurant can seat over 6,000 guests spread across 54,000 square meters and employs around 1800 staff in the summer months. More About: Restaurant
An Indian Wedding in Goa (slide show)
2009-12-31 15:45:00 A photo slide show from a 3 day long Indian wedding in Goa. (You might be asked to install a plug-in before the slide show will be presented.) More About: Wedding , Show , Slide
Land of Snowy Mountains
2009-02-05 16:50:00 Himachal Pradesh is a state in northern India which name means "Land of snowy mountains". Located in the western Himalayas, it has a varied landscape and a climate which spans from sub-tropical to alpine. Shimla, the state's capital, was the summer capital of the British Raj until India's independence in 1947. At that time one fifth of the world's population was administrated from here. More About: Mountains
Ladakh
2008-03-06 15:30:00 Ladakh is the northernmost region in India, a dry and isolated land of dramatic snow-capped mountains and high passes. The proximity to Tibet has strongly influenced the area which is predominantly Buddhist.
Kolkata
2007-04-24 22:25:00 Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta) is India's third largest city and often considered the artistic and cultural capital of the country. More About: Kolkata
Calcutta Blind Theatre
2007-04-16 10:40:00 Anyadesh is the name of a theatre group from Calc utta that consists of mainly blind members. The name means "another world" and the troop has toured the Indian state of West Bengal since the beginning of 2006. The group helps oppressed blind people to integrate into the world of the sighted, while spreading their message that blindness might be a physical handicap, but needn?t be a mental one. More About: Theatre , Heat , Blind , Calcutta
Delhi's HIV Positive Drug Addicts
2007-02-23 19:55:09 One third of Delhi 's intravenous drug addicts are HIV positive. This is a disturbing story about a group of them living on the very edge of society in India. The streets of Delhi are their home. More About: Drug , Positive , Posi , Addict
Taj Mahal
2007-02-23 19:55:09 The Taj Mahal was built by mughal emperor Shah Jahan in 1631 as a mausoleum for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who died while giving birth to their 13th child. It took 20.000 laborers 22 years to complete the construction.
A Lost Kingdom
2007-02-23 19:55:09 Prince Cirusaly's and Princess Sakeena's great-great-great grandfather was the last King of Oudh, Wajid Ali Shah, who once ruled five million subjects from Lucknow in Northern India. In the year 1856, British Colonial rulers dethroned the King and annexed his kingdom. While some Maharaja families were allowed to keep their palaces, many of which today have been rebuilt into lavish five star hotels bringing the income enabling them to sustain an extravagant lifestyle, the Oudh's lost their palaces and privileges and many in the family were left with very little. In 1985, after having occupied a waiting room in the New Delhi train station for ten years in an attempt to get their palaces and privileges back by embarrassing the Indian government, the then prime minister of India, Indira Gandhi, offered them a house in New Delhi. Today the once wealthy family is almost broke, having been forced to sell many of their royal antiques to take care of themselves, feed their dogs and pay th... More About: Lost , Kingdom
Bodhgaya - Buddhist Pilgrimage
2007-02-23 19:55:09 Around 2500 years ago a prince named Siddhartha left his palace and his future as a king to live as an ascetic in search for the truths of life. One day he came to the place now known as Bodhgaya. Here he would spend the following seven years meditating under a tree until one day he came to the realization of life's truths. He had now become a Buddha, an enlightened one. With his realization he laid ground for the religion in our time known as Buddhism with around 500 million followers the world over, mostly in Asia. Today Bodhgaya is the most important pilgrimage site for Buddhist s. More About: Image , Hist , Grim , Pilgrimage
Varanasi - Shortcut to Heaven
2007-02-23 19:55:09 Varanasi in northern India, the city of Lord Shiva, is one of the holiest cities for Hindus and an important destination for devout Indian pilgrims. Many Hindus believe dying here offers instant moksha, liberation from the continuous cycle of birth and death. The sacred river of Ganges flows through the city, and devotees from all corners of the country flock to bathe in its water, a ritual believed to wash away all sins. More About: Heaven , Short , Shortcut
New York City
2007-02-23 19:55:09 Pictures from New York City . More About: New York City , New-York
Ardh Kumbh Mela
2007-02-23 19:55:09 Every third year Hindus in India celebrate the religious festival called Ardh Kumbh Mela. This time the northern city of Haridwar hosted the event which moves around between four sacred cities on the subcontinent. The month long festival reached its climax on the 14th of April 2004 when, according to Hindu belief, favorable planetary positions made a bath in the holy water of the river Ganges extra auspicious. Sadhus, priests, and pilgrims from all over India came with the hope to wash away past sins in the sacred water. An estimated 3 million people visited the festival.
Land in the Clouds
2007-02-23 19:55:09 The hill station of Mussoorie in northern India. More About: Clouds , Land , Loud , Cloud , The Cloud
The Chatwal Wedding
2007-02-23 19:55:09 The spectacular wedding between New York-based hotel scion Vikram Chat wal and Indian model Priya Sachdev lasted a week, with ten lavish parties spread out over three Indian cities. Many Indians dubbed it "the wedding of a decennium". More About: Wedding , Hat
The Dabbawalas
2007-02-23 19:55:09 It's known as one of the most efficient organizations in the world. The remarkable dabbawallas (lunch-box-delivery-men) of Bombay delivers roughly 200,000 lunches daily from the suburban homes to the offices in the city's commercial center. Despite most of them being illiterate, they make only one mistake in eight million deliveries. This has qualified them for the Forbes Magazine's 6 Sygma rating, a rating given to determine an organizations delivery performance, and thus the humble dabbawalas' accuracy outperform many of the world's most well-known companies. More About: Abba , The D , Wala
Rebuilding Sri Lanka
2007-02-23 19:55:09 The situation in Sri Lanka almost one year after the tsunami is still highly unsatisfactory for most of the nearly 800.000 people who lost their homes in the tragedy. The vast majority still live in makeshift camps and after the initial global enthusiasm faded, the reconstruction work has progressed very slowly. Government corruption and the conflict with the Tamil Tigers have further delayed the effort to the degree of making Sri Lanka the slowest to recover of all countries hit by the tsunami on December 26, 2004. Tourists are beginning to return, but still in very small numbers, and the southern coast, which depends heavily on the tourist industry, suffers severely. The government has announced a "buffer zone" along the coast where no new permanent houses are allowed to be built. Many critical voices accuse the government for corruption, and for taking advantage of the tragedy, as plans to build large hotel resorts within this zone have been made public. More About: Building , Build
Kalaripayattu - Kerala's Warriors
2007-02-23 19:55:09 Kalaripayattu is widely considered the oldest martial art still practiced in the world today and the forefather to other popular systems such as Kung-fu and Karate. It originates from the tropical, south-Indian state of Kerala where, in ancient times, the warriors' responsibility was to protect the priestly caste from invaders. The art is practiced with authentic weapons and without any protective gear. Injuries are common and many generations of experience have made the Kalaripayattu practitioners experts at treating various ailments. The popularity of Kalaripayattu has steadily declined as India has modernized and people are left with less time to practice the traditional arts. These days many Kalaripayattu teachers simultaneously scrape out a living by running ayurvedic clinics in the towns where they treat their patients with massage, herbal remedies, and other traditional techniques passed on to them by their ancestors. More About: War , Warriors , Arri , Kala
Mumbai
2007-02-23 19:55:09 Pictures from Mumbai (aka Bombay), one of the fastest growing cities in the world.
The Kolis - in Mumbai's Shadow
2007-02-23 19:55:09 Long before the city of Mumbai (Bombay) was built, a traditional fishing tribe called the Kolis inhabited the seven islands on which the sprawling city is built today. Now their villages dot the urban coastline, and while new skyscrapers continuously grow up around them, most people in their community keep living by their ancient trade. Mumbai is predicted to become the world's most populous city by the year 2025, and as space is an ever growing demand, their settlements as well as their traditional way of life are both threatened to be swallowed by one of the fastest growing cities in the world. More About: Shadow
Lifeline Express
More articles from this author:2007-02-23 19:55:09 The Life line Express was founded as the world's first hospital train. India's extensive railway network makes a train an ideal way to reach remote parts of the country where a majority of the population is too poor to afford healthcare. After travelling the railroads for 14 years, over 400,000 Indians have benefited from the remarkable train on which major surgeries have been performed to restore movement, hearing, sight and correction of clefts. More About: Press , Xpress , Line 1, 2 |
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