An older woman praying next to a lingam in the temple in Sri Sailam.
The same students seen before having lunch in a Lingaïte school. Sri Sailam
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Young students inside the temple in Sri Sailam. They will eventually become priests.
Rickshaws on the street in front of the Charminar in Hyderabad.
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A lambadi woman filling up her water tank for the day in a village near Nagarjuna Sagar
Passing by movie posters in Hyderabad
A woman and her cat in front of a basket full of "Brinjal", in a little village not far from Nagarjuna Sagar.
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The well known symbol of the city, Charminar.
A street scene in Hyderabad, not far from the famous Charminor.
Everybody seemed to be so... alone.
A woman drinking सुगर काने juice on the sidewalk of a street in Hyderabad.
Pilgrims on their way to Sabarimala for the Ayappa pilgrimage.
Protecting a car for the next trip.
Selling religious Items to do Puja on a street in Sri Sailam
The lingaïte students having breakfast before heading to the temple to take their lessons.
An older woman praying God inside the temple in Sri Sailam
Those pilgrims from Andhra Pradesh were coming to Sri Sailam to pray, on their way to Sabarimala .
They are devotees of Lord Ayappa. They go through a 41 day penance abstaining from sex, meat and
intoxicationg drinks before undertaking the trek up the forested mountain chanting the celebrated three
words "Samiye, Saranam Ayappa ( Oh lord Ayappa, I come to thee for refuge.)
A pilgrim pointing to the temple of Sri Sailam through the ears of Nandi, Shiva's mount. A way to salute god.
Studying in a Lingaïte school in Sri Sailam
Portrait of a pilgrim waiting in line with me to enter the temple in Sri Sailam
Students during a lesson in Sri Sailam. They will eventually all become priests.
A saddhu buying betel leaves on a stand near the temple.
A painter refreshing the paint of some gods at the entrance of an Ashram in the city of Tirupati
A kid offering a coconut to God, something one can witness often in Southern India
A family waiting for the train to bring them back home
A pilgrim wating for his train on the platform in the train station of Tirupati
In India, people pour coffee this way. As you can see religion is everywhere, even on the coffee machine on the right. You can see the Shivaïte sign..
Workers coming up to have breakfast in a small restaurant in Tirumalai.
A man filling up little bags of dal to serve for beakfast.
Pilgrims who can't afford to saty in the temple accomodation where you have to pay can sleep under those big sheds.
After having taken their darshan at the temple, pilgrims are offered free food by the organisation of the temple. One of the biggest pilgrimage center in the world.
A Saddhu who was coming to the temple in Sri Kalahasti, southern Andhra Pradesh.
You can see an image of me shooting this image:
Waiting in the line with me to enter the temple in Sri Sailam. I took a picture of her mother first, you can see it below, then I took one of her. She was shy.
A mother taking care of her son.
The little boy had given away his hair as an offering.
Something happening a lot in Hinduism..
A smile to me as I was stuck in the traffic, inside a rickshaw.
A lambadi woman in the courtyard of her house in a little village near Nagarjuna Sagar
A woman having her hair shaved as an offering to the gods, Sri Sailam
A lambadi woman wwwaiting for the bus with me in Hyderabad
Swami Nara Simha (man Lion), a sadhu from AP readjusting his hair.
Omkar is a 10 years old boy studying in the Lingaïte school in Sri Sailam.
An image taken during his lunch in the lunch room of the building where all the students live.
Another day at the lingaïte school inside the temple in Sri Sailam.
A saddhu conducting a Puja in front a small shrine in Sri Sailam temple. This is one of the greatest Shivaïte shrines in India and it constitutes one of the 12 Jyotilingam .
The presiding deities here are Mallikarjun
A group of pilgrims touring the sites around Sri Sailam .
A priest blowing his conch during a Puja in Tirumalai.
The wait can be very long before reaching Lord Srinivasa's Sacred Abode on the Venkata Hill in Tirumalai.
When you visit Tirumalai like thousands of pilgrims every day, chances are you'll stay in an Guest house of the temple. .
Here is the one where I stayed. Everything is so well organized there. You get cheap and clean rooms.
Tirumalai is the most important pilgfrimage center in India, the busiest in the world in sheer number of pilgrims.
Pilgrims waiting for their train inside the Tirupati Train station.
My neighbor, the mango seller in the background, on my way to Tirupati
Ayappa pilgrims waiting for their train in Tirupati train station.
You can come across those pilgrims in Southern India from November to february.
The pilgrimage takes place in Sabarimala, Kerala.
I went there in January. What they have on their head is called Irumudi, a holy bundle.
A fruit seller on the platform in Tirupati
D. Sreenivasalu is a tailor from Tirupati.
He is praying before leaving on a pilgrimage to Sabarimala.
A quick street composition in Hyderabad..
I must admit I really love Indian food, sweet as well.
The priest of the Mahakali temple coming back from a small shrine where he performed a puja. The temple is located on top of a hill inside the Golcondfa fort, about 14 km outside Hyderabad.
You can see the painting of the goddess Kali on the left, and Durga on the right.
Another one of Hyderabad's symbol, the Charminar, shot from the mosque.
A scene not far from the Hotel Suhail, a nice place where I stayed, in Hyderabad, next to a movie theatre near Abid's circle.
Another picture of the well known Charminar in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh's capital.
