In Oriental countries everything is not quite as we used to, and in India.
For example, handshakes are considered there is very bad form, religious images can easily be scenes that we’d be porn, but if you wanted to eat with our hands, to use only the right left hand the Hindus considered dirty and you do not understand.
Finally, there’s don’t eat cows (unless you are from the untouchable caste, of course). And the local McDonald’s, although there are many of our usual items, but make them from chicken.
Rajasthan is the largest of the 36 States of India. Only it is home to more people than in all of France
Night slow cows become a real nightmare for Indian drivers. If suddenly local driver inadvertently still be an animal, he will begin the real problem. At best it will be a large fine (much greater than if the driver hit man) in the worst — a few years of this prison
In the narrow alleys of the historic city of Varanasi
If the cow decided to lie down on the road, it not just can’t drive — she can’t even honk the horn! It is a sacred animal. If it sits in your way, it’s your and only your problem. Local residents, however, have long got used to it.
Familiarity with the scooter in Jaisalmer
To these animals in India are so anxious that maybe if you called a girl a cow, she would consider it a compliment
When comes the time of harvest, the Hindus start to decorate the cows. This resident of Varanasi got off easy beads, some of the cows are painted in bright colors
Note the agitation mustachioed candidate on the left at the top. People in the frame, there is probably a difference, vote for him or someone else. But the cow will be good whoever is picked in the Indian Parliament.
Residential areas of Mysore, Karnataka
Children and calves play together. The City Anegundi.
A living illustration of the fact that India is overpopulated, not only people. One of the Central squares of the city Varanasi.
Chennai (to us he is more known as Madras). Photographer, Italian by birth, was very surprised that the cow peed next to the place where slept the man, and the man and did not blink. “It’s just kind of Promised Land for the cows,” he writes. “Often, they are here more important than ordinary people”
Hampi, Karnataka. Street kormilin for cows — the most common to the area phenomenon.
Cow, children and boats on the banks of the Holy river Ganges. If based on this photo to play “sacred neskasannoe”, “children” and “boat!” the ball needs to drop, in other cases — to catch.
Sadhu (this term refers to people who have renounced the world in favor of spiritual practices) and his horned companion.
Siesta with an Indian flavor
Girl feeding bulls in Uttar Pradesh
Calf found something edible around souvenir shops in the village temple Khajuraho
The state of Madhya Pradesh, with a woman all right, she just prays.
Studying advertising in Pushkar. The name of the city, by the way, has nothing to do with guns and is translated from Sanskrit as “blue Lotus flower”.
But the reality does not quite match the stereotypes. In India, there are two States where cows are legally allowed to kill: Kerala and West Bengal. There are more than 3000 legal slaughterhouses and illegal, according to experts, even 10 times more. Despite the official ban on the transportation of cows across States, a sacred animal here regularly imported for slaughter.
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