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Girls on an irrigation channelby *coshipi

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Central India, I don't know what year - although I do know exactly where.

This irrigation channel is still there, but it's been non-functional for at least twenty years.

Do full view - they've got such lovely smiles.

It's lovely when uncomplicated people like these children, all on their own in the fields hundreds of yards away from their homes, can just grin at a chap with a camera, with no fear and no self-consciousness.

The risks are probably no smaller in India than in Britain - in fact, they're probably greater. But they don't think about them, their parents aren't reminded about them every day by the telly or the papers (2007 edit: this may be beginning to change now - tellies are starting to appear even in the remoter villages). And they're genuinely not big risks in either place.

Put the other way, the risks in Britain are probably no greater than in India - in fact they're probably smaller.

How much has our society lost in this terrible paranoia? I am absolutely certain we've lost a lot more than we've gained.

~Toadsmoothy2 May 3, 2010

Absolutely great double portrait! I like what you've done with it.

~7ucky May 8, 2009

The G9 Indian smile ...........like mine after seeing this picture.

=ArtAnda Oct 28, 2008 Professional Traditional Artist

Indians can enjoy the moment and live free(ly) without concerning whether the guy with the camera will take them away and kill/rape them or not. And i think it's because they don't hear about these things every single day, so they still have this innocence. All this paranoia is poured in our brains drop after drop by the media and in my opinion, we are the biggest fools for listening to them.. :-/

*coshipi Oct 28, 2008

Exactly!

~alexmartinez Feb 16, 2008

Very beautiful!!

*coshipi Feb 16, 2008

Thanks!

!tusharm May 8, 2007 Photographer

Super shot. Love the hue.

*coshipi May 9, 2007

Thanks

It's the smiles I love. Those two young ladies are grown women now, no doubt with their own children.

~mizzuae Feb 3, 2006

awesome ..

they indeed have lovely smiles..

*coshipi Feb 3, 2006

Thank you

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