There is no greater violence than Poverty.
M. Gandhi
"Antonymous Indifference"
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
(By Elie Wiesel in Oct. 1986, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize).
I took that picture of Chai Baba where he usualy stands during daytime along the Ganges.
I know him since many years now, he is a well known character of the ghats in Varanasi (Benaras) who appears in several books and movies.
He is a Chai wallah, he makes and sells cups of tea there.
Sometimes we meet by chance at my friend’s restaurant nearby and then we share dinner together.
We talk about many things, he is a nice man and he contributes to what makes the Eternal city so special.
Once we spoke about the indifference of some toward people of his condition and this is the reason why I connected the words by Elie Wiesel to this portrait.
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"Antonymous Indifference"
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
(By Elie Wiesel in Oct. 1986, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize).
I took that picture of Chai Baba where he usualy stands during daytime along the Ganges.
I know him since many years now, he is a well known character of the ghats in Varanasi (Benaras) who appears in several books and movies.
He is a Chai wallah, he makes and sells cups of tea there.
Sometimes we meet by chance at my friend’s restaurant nearby and then we share dinner together.
We talk about many things, he is a nice man and he contributes to what makes the Eternal city so special.
Once we spoke about the indifference of some toward people of his condition and this is the reason why I connected the words by Elie Wiesel to this portrait.
Another portrait of Chai Baba:
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“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.
That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, andsuffer, and understand, for all that is life.”
(Jiddu Krishnamurti - Indian Theosophist Philosopher, 1895-1986)
Once I met those men at Gai ghat nearby the holy waters of the Ganges.
They were talking, laughing and enjoying the morning sun.
They didn't have much nevertheless something in the attitude and in the state of happiness around them made me believe that they understood the whole of life referred by Jiddu Krishnamurti.
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“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.”
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - German author, 1749-1832)
This man was walking at Munsi ghat, trying to sale the snacks that he was carrying before sunset.
The way he was holding the foot of the round metal tray as if it was a kind of musical instrument reminds those Dutch paintings of the 16th century and brings a touch of magic in this image.
That’s the thing with the ghats in Varanasi (Benaras), if you allow yourself to feel what stays invisible then you can feel this magic emanating from almost everything and then everywhere you go, you know it is still there, carried by each one in everything they do, through everything they touch and anything may happen...
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