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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Fifty Five: The Agra-Jhansi Express – a black and white travel picture story > Heavy lifting, Agra, India, 2008
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27-MAR-2008

Heavy lifting, Agra, India, 2008

As he waits on the platform for the train to Jhansi, this man casually reads a Hindi language newspaper. It gives the image its sense of place. Incongruously, he travels with at least a dozen huge sewn packages, using one of them as a seat. We wonder what may be in them, and how he will get them from the platform to the train and then out again at Jhansi. Who will do the lifting?

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Phil Douglis21-Apr-2008 18:14
And that, Alina, is the point of it all. It all part of life in India. The movement of large packages such as this is everyday stuff for him. He does not give it a second thought. He is more interested, as you note, in his paper.
Alina21-Apr-2008 09:33
Yes, he has got dozen of packages to think about and he is just reading newspaper :) Great catch Phil! v
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