{"id":10728,"date":"2015-11-10T22:20:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T22:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=134"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:02:06","slug":"stranger-no-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=10728","title":{"rendered":"Stranger No. 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/11910489893\/player\/7ccdd60fa0\" height=\"1024\" width=\"680\"  frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy is a jolly guy I ran into at the Mylapore Festival.  I asked him if I could take his picture and he agreed.  Then he asked for 20 rupees for a cup of coffee, presumably in exchange.  I assume the gesture he is making with his hands means something, and there was a booth being set up, and he was with about a dozen other guys also dressed in orange.  I was told they were &#8220;holy men&#8221; but due to the language barrier, I was unable to get much more information.  Here are his cohorts:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/11910589954\/player\/c343373b60\" height=\"425\" width=\"640\"  frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the photo caption on Flickr I assumed they were pilgrims; in reality, I have no idea.  It was only a guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramaswamy is a jolly guy I ran into at the Mylapore Festival. I asked him if I could take his picture and he agreed. Then he asked for 20 rupees for a cup of coffee, presumably in exchange. I assume the gesture he is making with his hands means something, and there was a booth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10489,"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":[2211,2214],"tags":[2216,943,836,2247,2250,2253],"class_list":["post-10728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-100-strangers","category-men","tag-100-strangers","tag-chennai","tag-india","tag-men","tag-pilgrim","tag-portrait"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/11910489893_7ccdd60fa0_m.jpg?fit=159%2C240&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728","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=10728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10926,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728\/revisions\/10926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}