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  • Early morning in Rajasthan, India, December 09, 2013. Jodhpur is second largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan and has long been a popular destination among international tourists. However, surprisingly few visitors know the origins of its sobriquet, "the blue city". The old town is a wonderful example of vivid colors providing a photogenic backdrop to everyday life. The old city is blue.  Local guides say that the blue wash of the houses originally indicated the homes of the upper -caste Brahmins, custodians of holy places and the written word. Varieties of blue, from royal blue to aquamarine, form the backdrop for a theatre of color played out in the streets, defying the parched orange of the surrounding desert.
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  • An widow watches as others dance as she takes part in celebrate Holi or 'festival of colors' at the Meerasahabhagini Ashram in Vrindavan on March 2015. Widows congregated on a small patio of the ashram in which they live and danced and played with colored powder to celebrate the occasion. The widows of this and other ashrams in this northern town are sponsored by the NGO, Sulabh International that funds most of their needs. Ignored from society when their husbands die, not for religious reasons, but because of tradition, many Indian widows have been hated from society and no longer live with their families and are forced to beg for food. Almost 2,000 of the estimated 34 million widows currently living in India live in Vrindavan and benefit from the welfare extended by the NGO. Holi, the popular Hindu spring 'festival of colors’ is observed in India at the end of the winter season on the last full moon of the lunar month.
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