A pro-Erdogan celebration in Stockholm, Sweden highlights a larger debate about the balance between preserving a country’s culture, on one hand, and admitting refugees and other immigrants, on the other. Or to look at it differently: “Who are ‘we’?” and “How much of ‘them’ should we tolerate?”
Bath, UK is two cities in one. The first is classically attractive, the second, positively ravishing, luring visitors with pedestrian malls and fine food and diverse culture and seductive charm. You really don’t want to miss it!
Oh, the irony, to see Erdogan supporters in Stockholm, Sweden celebrating his (apparent) victory — after Turkey blocked Sweden’s entry into the EU. A few more photos:
Is it okay that this girl spent her day carrying water instead of going to school? What if she didn’t mind?
On a chilly winter day I woke up at 4:00am and excitedly put my camera gear together for a day of adventure. What would I see at Rajaji National Park, the picturesque and sparsely visited wildlife refuge near the foothills of the Himalayas in India, best known for its frequent leopard sightings? 🐆
Tens of thousands of people converge every evening on the Ganges River as it flows through the city of Haridwar, and I was lucky enough to see it. The primary goal may be a dip in the water of the holy Ganges, but the gathering is an impressive combination of fire and water, of chants…
Did these kids feel left out? Or maybe we were their parade?
My experience has been that people differ from each other more than landscapes, but every so often I encounter something really unusual, as with this sunset in the Sonoran Desert. (It’s not really from Mars.)
Walk through Jaipur’s flamboyant celebration of life and you’ll encounter modernity infused with wisps of the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Here more than anywhere else, I felt the presence of the past permeating daily life.
Indians are great at going places. They’re also great at staying still. Is there a lesson here?
