Gorakhabasi

Last Friday there were a lot of nice ceremonies performed in the nearby slum Gorkahabasi Basti. We seized the opportunity to once again go to our new made friends and took our camera along.
Gesticulating vividly Rupak explains who we are and why we are here. Due to the enormous run of hearers he had to be careful not to hit someone.
Meanwhile, to good Indian custom Daria's hair was braided.
Shu could not resist this exceptional talent, and had her hair done also.
Because of the enormous crowd in the house there was a dire lack of sufficient space to braid, so the end result of the session was a somewhat sinuous ponytail.
We went past some houses and stumbled across a huge amount of kids who were thrilled that a bunch of 'whites' visited them in their homes.
Whole families sleep in one room - admittedly, one of the girls in the picture [the middle one in the purple dress] is a friend of the family, but even without her it still are a lot of people for one room.
Our new friend Sarda wanted to have a photo taken with Shu, and preferably in the house of her family. Her younger brother refused to wake up and was certainly not going to make way for the photographer and his models.