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While on my way to some rural areas of Maharashtra state, I took a moment to see how some of Mumbai’s 21 million residents spend their afternoon.  I’ve made it to India at the height of summer, but I much prefer the 100°F+ dry heat of June to the extreme humidity to come in July and August, which has rendered my lenses useless in the past.

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India is both the extraordinary and the execrable, and sadly I’ve grown much too acclimated to the latter.   The level of poverty seen here brings about a feeling of hopelessness.  But as I’ll show from a couple of video pieces I’m creating now, even at unlikely odds, the battle is winnable.

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Gateway to India - Mumbai (Bombay)

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