Delhi, India "Cow Directing Traffic" 1991
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Cows are sacred in India.
They are left alone.
This section is in New Delhi .... BTW Delhi is a HUGE city.
There is a large amount of retail and restaurants in this particular old shopping district in New Delhi.
As I think back...cows like this provided what was not readily available a few hundred meters from this spot....where tourists were very thick. Where people shined shoes, cut hair and picked "stones" from the inner ears of the people....the latter likely being dirty wax build up in the ears. The shoe shiners made out splendidly. The tourist walking in the section having no cows at all would be approached by a shiner of shoes who very pointedly pointed out to said tourist that s/he "have cow sheet on (his/her) shoes."...and boldly begins to clean and then shine the shoes of the unsuspecting tourist who had no idea from where such fecal matter had attached itself to them. No one wants cow fecal matter on them so the tourist gladly gets fleeced by the man/boy who had placed the matter swiftly and discreetly on the shoes.
Full frame photo taken with Nikon F2 likely having the 24mm 2.8 Nikkor lens.
They are left alone.
This section is in New Delhi .... BTW Delhi is a HUGE city.
There is a large amount of retail and restaurants in this particular old shopping district in New Delhi.
As I think back...cows like this provided what was not readily available a few hundred meters from this spot....where tourists were very thick. Where people shined shoes, cut hair and picked "stones" from the inner ears of the people....the latter likely being dirty wax build up in the ears. The shoe shiners made out splendidly. The tourist walking in the section having no cows at all would be approached by a shiner of shoes who very pointedly pointed out to said tourist that s/he "have cow sheet on (his/her) shoes."...and boldly begins to clean and then shine the shoes of the unsuspecting tourist who had no idea from where such fecal matter had attached itself to them. No one wants cow fecal matter on them so the tourist gladly gets fleeced by the man/boy who had placed the matter swiftly and discreetly on the shoes.
Full frame photo taken with Nikon F2 likely having the 24mm 2.8 Nikkor lens.
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