View allAll Photos Tagged vrindavan
North Eastern Railway metre gauge P Class 4-6-0 No. 31606 built by Schwartzkopff in Berlin nearing Mathura Junction on the 9.00am mixed train from the terminus at Vrindavan. With the cooperation of the crew several unscheduled photo stops were made en route. 10 January 1981.
On that holy grail, the Grand Trunk Road, that traverses India.
In a village bordering the holy town of Vrindavan, the lonely matriarch with a bandaged right foot surveys the fast paced world as it whizzes by in its mad rush to nowhere.
_DSC2850 from nef copy crop 1bnw with SL and CMxer yellow
Mi Web : www.gmaquedaphotography.com/
Mi Facebook : www.facebook.com/gastonmaquedaphotography
Mi Instagram www.instagram.com/gastonmaquedaphotography/
Few places are as closely associated with the deity Krishna as is Vrindavan, on the banks of the Yamuna, a few hours'drive south-east of Delhi.But Vrindavan has its darker, less-loving side - it is known as "the city of widows".
Thousands of widows have been making their way to one particular town in the north of India. Cast out by their families, or simply alone in the world, some travel hundreds of miles to get there, and nobody quite knows why.
Considered inauspicious, many soon find they have lost their income and are ostracised in their home villages. Some are sent away by their husbands' families who want to prevent them inheriting money or property