A Familiar Stranger

A Familiar Stranger

Mansinh Gadhvi…

Working as a guide at the Vijay Vilas Palace, a tourist place in Kutchh, Gujarat.

I have lived in Kutchh for 4 years and know how to speak Kutchhi a little… I was visiting this place when I just asked this man “Who is current King?”… I asked in Kutchhi…

And then it happened… This man, Mansinh Gadhvi, talked to me about the Palace, the kingdom and the history for almost an hour… By the time we reached to end of our talk, I was already past lunch-time… He so easily invited me for lunch at his home…

We were completely stranger a few minutes ago… and just by speaking a sentence in Kutchhi, we were familiar with each other…

Language binds people… and when people speak same language, they become Familiar Strangers

Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Lens: Tamron 18-270mm Di II VC
1/125 Sec @ f/5.6
59mm – ISO 100

Advertisement
This entry was published on November 17, 2011 at 11:26 am. It’s filed under Portraits and tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.