We met a few nomads in Hampi and the women folk shyly spoke to us. They are mainly from Belgaum, but they hardly have a destination called home. They move from villages to villages, often working as shepherds or rear cattle and live in temporary settlements. Their belongings are usually their horses and a few vessels which they carry along with their bundle of clothes.
They work in and around the villages in Hampi until the monsoons are over and then they begin their journey towards their home again. However, when you ask them whether they are headed home , they just smile and say no..When pressed for an answer as to where they are headed, they simply say – ” To the next village.”
Life is hard is it not? And many take it for granted. I would have loved to ask them wheater they find this exiting, I would though, but then after sometime you never know.
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Beautiful photographs. The mookutthi is on the left side of the nose.
Nice pics, Lakshmi! It must be a hard life for them, living as they do, with no home to speak of… but then again, I remember reading somewhere about gypsies, that they are born nomads and would not really be happy if given amenities and asked to settle down! I wonder… are these nomads by choice or because they have no other choice??
Lakshmi,
Your pictures are depicting their life nicely.
@Anu
You are perfectly correct. They are nomads by choice. They will not settle down at one place even if given all facilities. They would, however, take the benefits of all that comes by and will continue to move on.
Cool pics…
still remember -How the women from across the river posed for a shot… 😀
Lovely set of pictures.
Hi Lak 🙂
le donne indiane sono meravigliose … e soprattutto forti in questo mondo di uomini !
Grande spaccato di un mondo mistico e fragile !
Grazie della visita 🙂
Buona giornata.
Myriam
Wonderful post and series of pictures. The nomads life are tough, but sometime i feel i would be a nomad to own anything than simple belong to the earth.
How come horses? Must be an interesting story.