Many drivers say that in India, you can drive without headlights but not without a horn. The wedding ceremony was being conducted in a courtyard of the Durga Temple in Varanasi. Flower merchants hawk garlands of marigolds at the Mallick Ghat Flower Market in Calcutta.
Most merchants travel many miles by foot each day to sell their wares.
In New Delhi, a mother carries her young child as she begs for a few rupees at the window of stopped cars. A groundskeeper at the Holiday Inn in Ahmedabad waters the hotel's plush garden. The colony is a few miles downriver from the Sabarmati Ashram, where Gandhi led the struggle for India's independence. Since 1757, craftsmen in the Kumartuli neighborhood of Calcutta have been producing images of the gods from mud, straw and paint. Kali, godess of destruction, carries a garland of demon heads.