A Hard Day's Night
Mumbai, a city that actually never sleeps. It is constantly humming with the hectic economic activity that goes on almost without let up, everyone is earning a living. Every inch of the pavement is a market, suburban trains, big shops and small shops, houses in tiny lanes, people working all day and then again all night; all this and more constitute the hive that is Mumbai. Despite the swirling activity, people are kind, considerate and allowing, they have time for you. In this maelstrom, there are tiny eddies of calm and solitude and privacy. in a three night photography workshop I gained a tiny peep into a small part of the hard lives of these lovely people. The Beatles immortalise this in their eponymous song which says it all. "It's been a hard day's night, and I'd been working like a dog It's been a hard day's night, I should be sleeping like a log" Lady Selling Fish Mumbai is a city of commerce, big business houses and street retail, all busily h