New Delhi Railway Station

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New Delhi Railway Station

[© Copyright] 19 Apr 2006 Dylan O'Donnell
CATEGORY : Portraits
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Delhi’s two railway systems are anachronistically distinct. In one, the middle class travel dressed in modern western clothes and carry electronic tokens through automated gates in a shiny, organized, on-time and well run railway system that rivals, and easily excels anything Australia has to offer. The other, national railway, is crowded and dusty. Red tobacco stains fill the spare corners and beggars, lepers, streetkids, holymen, families, police and animals negotiate one another. Pictured here, a small community of homeless live between the tracks turning spare wood from signs and barely mature trees into small pit fires to cook. Rats weave among them and trains are forced to blow their horns constantly lest a child has it’s back to the approaching carriage.

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