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Some women chatting and a Indian man going to the temple in beautiful Jodhpur

This man living near the river in a small hut in the Pudupet district of Chennai had a portrait of Dr Ambedkar painted on his wall. Dr Ambedkar was a well known Dalit advocate and was also one of the father of the Indian constitution.

I hate to say it, but I had an awfully hard time getting here today. It’s not that I didn’t want to stop by and say hello; I like you guys too much for that. It’s just that it’s been way too pretty lately to be sitting inside at the computer. [...]

Originally published in Men’s Health Magazine, October 2007

A Few months ago me and two of friends of volunteering ourselves into a race that involved driving over 3,000 km across India in the Monsoons over the Himalayas - if that wasn’t harrowing enough we thought we’d do it in an mobile toaster on wheels - 3 [...]

Notes from a story I shot for a french publication on young girls from Russia and Eastern Europe, who make a living dancing in Bollywood dance sequences.
Everybody deserves 15 minutes of fame, but nobody deserves to have to spend nine hours in a crumbling, sweltering suburb of Bombay to get it. Nevertheless, that is what [...]