When the Street is Home - Delhi

-
When home is a corner street island with one tree and surrounded by cars life is only going to get worse. There's no way out and no foreseeable government action to stop the cycle. Poverty is life. When all you have is a shirt, it's important that the buttons are properly done in place. As traffic goes by you count on someone to heat the food and hope there's enough to go around.
It looked like several families shared this corner, living on the handouts from begging.
India has paperwork and regulations for everything. It seems this even applies to how you secure your life in a tree on a street.



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Innsbruck - here despite it never being on my to-see list

-
Image
First the backstory. In about a week I'll be boarding a cruise ship (this year's Cruise Trek) in Romania. When I booked the flight many months ago, I had a brilliant idea to go in a week early to Vienna and use it as a base to spend a few nights each in Albania and Bosnia. Fast forward to 6 weeks ago and the Covid restrictions, flight schedules, and hotel prices made me give up. Changing the flight to Vienna would result in penalties and possibly fare increases so I made the best of it and thought, where can I go in Austria where I've never been? Innsbruck, hmm. Can I get a free flight from Vienna? Yes! Can I get a free hotel room? Yes. Check! The city is picture perfect though. Nestled in a valley between two mountain ranges, it's green, colorful, and everything you could want a place to be when the purpose is total work decompression. No major sightseeing, no expectations. You, a city and a view. It's walkable and small. You've got to look up, left and right,
Read more