| India 2000: Konanki | ||
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Konanki was a small village about 100km West of Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) and 60km North of Chilakaluripet (place of the parrots). I visited the village to stay with my friend GRC Nagaraju. I met him when teaching on the Biotechnology course in Sri Venkateshwara University and we remained friends as he was working for his PhD. I stayed four nights during Pongal festival. His family were farmers. |
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| Konanki village | The chilli harvest | Pongal festival |
| The village of Konanki TOP | ||
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| Nagaraju's home (the right part of house) | ||
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| The seft side of house with his aunt | ||
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| View from veranda where I worked on laptop during days | ||
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| Nagaraju's mother washing up | ||
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| Nagaraju with a village friend | ||
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| My bed with more village friends learning about computers | ||
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| More friends (shame about poor photo) | ||
| The Chilli Harvest TOP | ||
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| Nine of us drove out to chilli fields balanced on this tractor | ||
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| Out in the fields | ||
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| Nagaraju giving binocular lessons | ||
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| My favourite uncle | ||
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| There is always bags of chillies in their food (in tiffin tins); here is one of the bags | ||
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| Don't rub your eyes after harvesting Chillies or you have problems with these photos | ||
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| Nagaraju with mother and father (on right) | ||
| The Pongal festival TOP | ||
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| Decorating on morning of Pongal festival | ||
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| The main road leading down to the river on Pongal morning | ||
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| The God approaching | ||
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| The umbrella is protecting from sun | ||
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| Just after this the local press insisted on a photo with me holding the sacred cow | ||
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| The band were fairly gentle until they saw me with camera | ||
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| Then things got more frantic | ||
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| They seemed to enjoy it as much as me | ||
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