Rajendra Pradhan
Melancholy Eyes
Santosh lives by the roadside with her family where they sell trinkets for a living. She never went to school and may be married off in a year or two. She is thirteen.
Update September 2010: I checked recently and she was married off, at the age of 15.
I don't know if it is really that good, but this photograph has been compared with that of the Afghan girl by legendary Steve McCurry by some of my critics.
© Rajendra Pradhan
Melancholy Eyes
Santosh lives by the roadside with her family where they sell trinkets for a living. She never went to school and may be married off in a year or two. She is thirteen.
Update September 2010: I checked recently and she was married off, at the age of 15.
I don't know if it is really that good, but this photograph has been compared with that of the Afghan girl by legendary Steve McCurry by some of my critics.
© Rajendra Pradhan