Camera Obscura
I smile and I smile
Posted by ConvexClix (Mumbai, India) on 11 May 2007 in People & Portrait and Portfolio.
He sleeps on the mattress
I dream while sleeping on a clothes pile
Still I smile ..
and I smile
He goes to the school while
I make my dads knitting spool
Is this the God's rule?
He gets to play with the toys
Sunrise, stars are all I have as joys
You pray the female Godesses and
still you want, in your family, only boys.
Still.. I smile
and I smile..
May be I exaggerated the expressions in this particular picture. But this paradox, hypocrisy of our social values, still prevails in Indian villages and even among educated families in bigger towns. You would still see middle class families (stuggling to barely reach the basic living standards) have three daughters and one significantly younger brother. You dont need to ask more .. this says it all. We say that we treat women equivalent to God in our value system. Why dont you want to have an avatar of Goddess in your own family. Why would you abuse your daughter-in-law if she gave birth to a girl.
Clicked on Tata Motor's township ini Jamshedpur.. sometime in January 2006.
Kodak DX6490 ZOOM
1/45 second
F/3.2
105 mm (35mm equiv.)