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May 3, 2005

Woman Power in India I

09:05 (CDT): so don't ever let me near the site in the middle of the night. I'm very sorry for clobbering the index page and scaring people with lame statistics. Everything is back to normal now, thank you for your patience!

One thing that consistantly surprised me as a foreigner in India was simply the shear amount of people used to in construction or public works projects. Whereas a large portion of the world would be content to hire three guys and a Bobcat for the day to move a pile of dirt, in India it seems the standard is to hire a whole squad of woman with shovels to pick at the earth and move it in giant bowls worn on their heads.

In Bangalore, I saw a concrete flooring installed utilizing this method. On the fifth floor. Women would line up under a truck spewing fresh concrete and squat to have the bowl on their heads filled up. Then they would board an elevator constructed of rickety-looking scaffolding and dump their loads off on the floor at the top. OSHA? Sm-OSHA! It's India!

Jim, Srikanth, and I were heading towards boarding the boat to see the Buddha statue in the middle of Hussain Sagar when I passed this construction crew. I doddled off and took a number of photos here. This was the first one I got as I was walking by.

The focus point is a little ahead of the subject and there is some motion shake but considering I took this shot off to the side, no-look, I think I did pretty good. This shot is uncropped, it just happened to frame up this way!

Posted by jordanh at May 3, 2005 1:07 AM

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