Everywhere You Look

We've come from Mewat (site of the immunization day) to Jaipur to Agra (home of the Taj Mahal) to Varanasi. The spectrum from poverty to wealth is extreme, like nothing the US knows. Entire families sleep on the ground at the grimy train station, where tiny children scrounge the remainders of Lay's potato chip crumbs from bags in the trash. At the other end, families shop for jewels fit for a king.

Everywhere among the poor and the rich, there is filth. Yet everywhere we look, there is beauty.

woman at the well

Taj Mahal

Taking care of hay in the village