Riyas Komu https://photomail.org/portfolio_category/riyas-komu/ Discover, Debate, Define, The Art of Photography Sun, 03 Oct 2021 12:05:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Mallaahs, the boatmen of Gangetic geography, A Photo Art series by Shibu Arakkal https://photomail.org/online/mallahs-the-boatmen-of-gangetic-geography-a-photo-art-series-by-shibu-arakkal/ https://photomail.org/online/mallahs-the-boatmen-of-gangetic-geography-a-photo-art-series-by-shibu-arakkal/#respond Thu, 17 Dec 2020 10:55:56 +0000 http://photomail.org/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=8677 Review of Mallahs, the boat of Gangetic geography, photographic series of Shibu Arakkal. For several hundred years these boatmen on the Ganga and the Yamuna have handed down their oars from father to son. I was intensely drawn to the purpose of their lives, to carry people back and forth on these rivers. Almost married to their boats, these men. To live almost all of their lives on these wooden vessels, going about their worldly chores and belonging to a tribe of menfolk, they pride themselves on being the real caretakers of these mystical rivers. Almost as if they are born on these boats and just as possibly may breath their last on it, the Mallaah men live lives removed from their families and children.

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