{"id":10745,"date":"2015-11-10T23:13:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T23:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=167"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:01:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:01:41","slug":"stranger-no-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=10745","title":{"rendered":"Strangers Nos. 53 and 54"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"D_Gajenthiran and Duray by TAZMPictures, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/12718293624\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"D_Gajenthiran and Duray\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/12718293624_af84de851f_z.jpg?resize=640%2C425&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Duray&#8221; and &#8220;D. Gajenthiran&#8221; sell flowers on Badrian Street near Parry&#8217;s corner in Chennai. (for more info on that market, see <a href=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=2649\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a>\u00a0on my other blog). \u00a0I&#8217;m not completely sure if Duray is the name of the guy on the left, or if it&#8217;s just the first name of the guy on the right. \u00a0We were passing down the street taking pictures, and presumably these guys saw us passing out actual prints we had made, because they reacted enthusiastically to my request to take their picture. \u00a0The gentleman on the left grabbed a business card for the shop &#8211; PDM &#8211; and scribbled &#8220;D. Gajenthiran&#8221; on it, indicating the guy on the right. \u00a0When I asked his name, he said &#8220;Duray.&#8221; \u00a0Admittedly, there were some language issues. \u00a0It&#8217;s the best I could do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/12718194394\/\" title=\"D_Gajenthiran 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\/12718194394_4961caeac8_c.jpg?resize=531%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" alt=\"D_Gajenthiran\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Duray&#8221; and &#8220;D. Gajenthiran&#8221; sell flowers on Badrian Street near Parry&#8217;s corner in Chennai. (for more info on that market, see this post\u00a0on my other blog). \u00a0I&#8217;m not completely sure if Duray is the name of the guy on the left, or if it&#8217;s just the first name of the guy on the right. \u00a0We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10498,"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":[2216,943,667,1134,2253,2265],"class_list":["post-10745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-100-strangers","category-men","tag-100-strangers","tag-chennai","tag-flower","tag-market","tag-portrait","tag-vendor"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12718293624_af84de851f_m.jpg?fit=240%2C159&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10745","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=10745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10915,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10745\/revisions\/10915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}