Monday, June 25, 2007

Victoria Terminus

Due largely to overcrowding in the city and the lack of proper housing for the poor—especially with developers buying out slums to build high-rises for the middle and upper class—lots of people sleep on the streets of Mumbai or, when it rains, under whatever overhang they can find. This sort of thing looks pretty strange against the backdrop of stunning architecture left over from the century long British Raj. The eeriest part is that this man’s ancestors could have been the very same impoverished artisans who the Empire conscripted into carving the gargoyles looking down on him.

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