You will also be able to view my animation piece, " I Dreamt of India" there.
Siesta time on a hot afternoon.
Tiny dresses in every colour of the rainbow, and jewelry, provide sets of new garments for every festival. The doll-sized thrones, in wood, or velvet, are also available.
Freindly.
A sign-painter's tiny shop in Jaipur.
The graphic in Hindi says "Pentr".The box on legs is his shop/storage, the board serves as doorstep, and the paint can is his client's seat. Samples of the lion and actors are set out daily. Jeetu's shop is squeezed beside the on-ramp of a 6 lane national highway.
Maybe something could be done to perk up the Queensway in Ottawa? Something tells me it would be regarded as graffiti, rather than as a respectable career.
Resourceful.
Mixed transport, 
elephants parked outside the Udaipur City Palace. The delicately freckled skin is very prominent on this elder. I think she's snoozing...
photo taken by Marie-France, in Orchha, Central India.
Some of the recent restoration work was criticized for being highly insensitive. They can do ( and usually do) a lot better job than this. Some contractor was skimming funds and buying cheap modern marble. Disgraceful!
Teams of stonemasons are contracted to carry out the painstaking carving work during the winter months, each piece of stone is carefully measured to fit. The water channel restoration alone required over 3000
Most of the stonemasons come from areas where stonework is traditional, especially Rajasthan.
Well, it's a job. A team of elder women get to work hammering bricks into dust, for the traditional mortar preparation. They were very cheery that day! I suppose working in a circle helps.
Humayun's Tomb 
His widow, Haji Begum, began construction on the tomb in either 1565, or 1569 (sources disagree). She contracted a Persian architect, Mirak Mirza Ghiyas, to create the building in the Persian style, and he gave India it's first full double dome. Red sandstone outlined by white marble was a design feature indigenous to the subcontinent, as were the chattris (roof pavilions).
The interior is quite austere, but the surface designs of intricate geometrical stone inlay, play with the poetry of filtered light, entering from the multi-layered chiseled stone screens. 
The building is known as the "dormitory of the Mughals", as, beneath the massive plinth, hundreds of later royals lie buried. Each archway marks a burial chamber.
The engineering entailed to manage the smooth flow of water by gravity from end to end of the 30 acre garden is mind-boggling. When the Aga Khan foundation undertook the extensive restoration project, much stonework, cleaning, and channel repair was required, but correction of the original water levels of the garden channels was minimal.
Delhi is extremely hot and humid right now. The monsoon is almost over, and after the cooling rain and clouds comes the blazing-sun-out steamer effect. Insect life (and other organisms) are in full glory, the trees and plants are fresh-bathed and flourishing, and one is soaked in sweat from the least activity. It is all gloriously GREEN. And damp.
I found a giant grasshopper last week at Ninder Mahal, sipping nectar by night on the Queen of the Night bush. The length of my longest finger, maybe 6", a King of Grasshoppers he was, and the most pop-art design you can imagine; chrome yellow and bright blue rings end to end! Just like a hallucination, or Alice in Wonderland. Then the details; delicate irridescent glassy wings, shaded yellow through coppery red, tiny sketched lines along legs, and stripey ringed antenna, and buggy blue eyes. The King was slowly picking up each tubular flower in both "hands", and sipping it back, as from a chalice. After a while he began to eat them slowly, like cucumbers.
