WHERE CENTURIES COEXIST - India saturates you with all its splendour - beautiful people, history, landscape, architecture, sculpture, variety and of course colours. I was in India for two months, dec-05-feb 06. I just stayed in Kolkata, and spent much needed time with my parents. I did take pictures of this great city which was until very recently called 'Calcutta'. In British India 'Calcutta' was the capital city of the country. 'India' corrupted the 'muted colour sense' of the 'colonials' and it shows in its buildings. Though I don't know what the original colour scheme might have been, I do know that now these places enjoy a vivid, uninhibited, coats of colours that 'locals' put on them. Of course then there is the 'great Indian monsoon' working through the colours, paling its brightness in part and lending it a sense of history in a very casual way. 'Neglect' is a fantastic tool to compress a denser sense of history into a place or structure then it's actual historical oldness. I have over a thousand pictures like these and I will keep posting them here from time to time. ..As per the promise here is another picture. KOLKATA - EYE CANDIES : A QUIET, LATE JANUARY EVENING, SOFT ORANGE STREET LIGHT, A CUTE LITTLE BALCONY, A RICKSHAW AND OF COURSE UBIQUITOUS KOLKATA WALL WITH GRAFFITTI - YES..COLOURFUL, ARTISTIC, RADICAL, REACTIONARY, WHIMSICAL, ARTSY, OF THE LEFT, OF THE RIGHT, OF THE CENTRE, FOR THE PEOPLE, OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, AGAINST THE PEOPLE. EVERY WALL IN KOLKATA IS AN ARTIST'S CANVAS - A HUGE CANVAS.