Tag: laborer
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Stranger No. 97
Like stranger No. 96, Simim was working on refurbishing one of the ghats at Varanasi – basically filling in cracks with cement and/or re-laying stones. They explained that the Modi government had allocated money to give Varanasi a “facelift”. I asked him to take his photo in the frame of this doorway (apparently they were…
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Stranger No. 96
This is Raju, a laborer helping to renovate one of the ghats in Varanasi. He doesn’t speak a word of English but through a translator explained that he and his colleagues were brought in to help give the ghats a facelift, thanks to money made available by the Modi government.