Leh. Evening walk with the locals
As a part of Ladakh festival there was a fashion show. However the fashion was only represented with never old tibetan classics.
Such hats, earrings and dresses are sold everywhere in tourist shops but these are not plain souvenirs which can only gather dust on cupboard’s shelves. This is true present-day clothes. It seems surprising that somebody can wear national clothes in our world of jeans, t-shirts and folk skiffle-groups but here it is exactly like that. Plain dresses are worn by rural citizens everyday and the full dress is used for special events.
We were sitting at a roof-top restaurant when we heard a sound from a loudspeaker which was announcing something in both Hindi or Tibetan and English.
Such cars with loudspeakers are an ordinary thing in India. And so Indian streets which are in no way quiet become filled with advertisements on the top. Musicians were walking in front of the car and beating their drums.
And all dressed up Ladakhi were walking behind.
Time after time the procession used to stop and one or another group used to start demonstrating something. However it was extremely hard to see what they were doing because of the crowd surrounding the procession and constant moving. Just as you had managed to find a good place for yourself everything was shifting few meters and you had to start over.
This is Indian organization: senseless and pitiless. What was actually going on was seen by maybe ten or twenty people and the remaining hundred was only crowding around with no understanding. You could not see anything even from the top as there was almost no illumination.
So common. And the grandmothers on the streets were selflessly protecting their goods from the legs rush.
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March 20, 2009 1:41 pm
By Souvik Chakraborty, May 14, 2009 @ 11:12 am
The quality of pictures could be improved. This is a nice website