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Sacks of pepper are carried into the Kochi spice warehouses.These women are sifting dried ginger which will be ground up for use all over the world.Workers from another state fill sandbags. We thought they might be from Gujarat or Bihar.A young boy attends school in a Vedic temple. The boys learn to chant prayers in unison.Fish is hauled to trucks from the boats in plastic baskets.A young fisherman of Mangalore.Old Salt.Sandbaggers of Mangalore.The sandbag people camped behind the warehouses. This young woman is doing some household chore.The general store on the docks at Mangalore.A stevedore at Mangalore.Bollywood posters are everywhere. The price for a ticket to a film is a couple of dollars.Mangalore laborer. He was the favorite of the young women who bagged sand.In one of Kochi's many spice merchant businesses. He is examining beetle nuts. I was mistaken when I referred to them as nutmeg.In the backwaters of Kerala where rice is grown in huge paddies. People live and work along the canals.One of the immigrant women at the Mangalore docks preparing the evening meal.Sandbaggers at work.Sardines or smelts for sale.
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Sacks of pepper are carried into the Kochi spice warehouses.



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