Dalits (Untouchables)

Here is a series of images from our recent visit to a government project building built for slum residents just 2 years ago. The residents, 90% who are part of the "Outcastes" in the Hindu varna (caste) system, wielded enough political power to get their local politician to truly represent them. I think we can all learn something from India's democracy. Two of the shots are of a Hindu temple and a night shot of a building in the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens in Bangalore. Oh, and one of them is just a street shot of... the street.

Most of what I've learned has been about India's history and politics, about partition.

Sorry about the unrotated pictures. Turn your monitor on its side.