{"id":10702,"date":"2015-11-10T20:53:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T20:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=79"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:02:07","slug":"stranger-no-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=10702","title":{"rendered":"Stranger No. 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Jaya Kumar and the Gang by TAZMPictures, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/11290240704\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jaya Kumar and the Gang\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11290240704_95f7980dca_z-2.jpg?resize=640%2C434&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"434\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s stranger is actually a group of strangers. A particularly vocal and raucous group. Their &#8220;ringleader&#8221; is Jaya Kumar, in the white shirt roughly center of the picture. I ran into them at the Sri Ekambareswarar Temple in Kanchipuram, India. They may have been pilgrims &#8211; or maybe they were just on a trip. But they were an excited bunch of young guys visiting from Kerala.<\/p>\n<p>I photographed them with a Kodak Retina 1a &#8211; manufactured in 1950 or so. You can see more photos taken with that camera <a href=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=2319\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s another photo of the guys:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/11290403873\/\" title=\"Jaya Kumar and the Gang by TAZMPictures, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11290403873_a14a2fb67e_z-1.jpg?resize=640%2C424&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" alt=\"Jaya Kumar and the Gang\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s stranger is actually a group of strangers. A particularly vocal and raucous group. Their &#8220;ringleader&#8221; is Jaya Kumar, in the white shirt roughly center of the picture. I ran into them at the Sri Ekambareswarar Temple in Kanchipuram, India. They may have been pilgrims &#8211; or maybe they were just on a trip. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2211,2212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-100-strangers","category-boys"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/11290240704_95f7980dca_m.jpg?fit=240%2C162&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10942,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10702\/revisions\/10942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}