New Year's Day

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.”
― Edith Lovejoy Pierce

As long as someone....

“It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”

- Roald Dahl  

U is for Ullman, Liv Ullman

"If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex."

Liv Ullman

600,000 girls go missing in India every year- aborted before they are born; killed at childbirth; abandoned in infancy, allowed to die of mal-nourishment or lack of timely medical care.

As a part of A-Z Challenge, the blog will host a photograph of a woman who survived, along with a quote by a famous (or not so famous) woman. 

P is for Parker, Dorothy Parker

"Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."

Dorothy Parker

600,000 girls go missing in India every year- aborted before they are born; killed at childbirth; abandoned in infancy, allowed to die of mal-nourishment or lack of timely medical care.

As a part of A-Z Challenge, the blog will host a photograph of a woman who survived, along with a quote by a famous (or not so famous) woman. 

Luckily, this is not difficult.

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. ~Charlotte Whitton

...achieved perfection...

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, 
but when there is nothing left to take away."

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

... his ugly feet

"People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, 
and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet."
~Sa'Di

.. the morning dew...

"Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been."

~ Samuel Daniel

... the fruit laden tree...

It is only the fruit-laden tree that receives the shower of stones from passersby. 

... the only bee....

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."
Robert Green Ingersoll

A is for Artist

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October 25, 2010
Hauz Khas Market, Delhi

Store on the Move

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November 1, 2010

Hauz Khas, New Delhi

Divinity in the midst of Poverty

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January 21, 2011
Pune, Maharashatra

Asleep while her mother works

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January 21, 2011
Pune, Maharashtra

Hands that Work

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January 21, 2011
Pune, Maharashtra

Flowers meant for Worship

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October 27, 2010
Hauz Khas, Delhi

Pretty Mannequins All in a Row

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October 27, 2010
Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi

Prams are useful Shopping Carts

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October 27, 2010
Lajpath Nagar, Delhi