Puri beach
October 13, 2009 · Print
Sunset on the beach at Puri (Orissa)
Puri, a city sacred to Hinduism, home to an avatar of Vishnu in the temple of Jagannath, prohibited entry to Western visitors. The city leads to a long beach of fine sand but waves relentlessly and scorching sun. Until dusk falls, and then the Bengali holidaymakers are preparing to go to walk, barefoot, on the thin layer of water left by the retreating waves, and that reflects just a few minutes of agony, the last shades of pink from the sun in printing and dying to get rid of the clouds.
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Thematic area:
- Thar Desert
- The sari
- Dirt and urbanism threaten the future of the holy city of Varanasi
- The river Ganges
- Hindu groups against a statue of 'Christian' Charlie Chaplin
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