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Bag’s Take-Away:
Open wide. Very wide. Not sure I could do this. He must be practiced at the scan. I’d need the device from Clockwork Orange.
(credit: Bikas Das/Associated Press caption: A man getting his retina scanned in Kolkata as part of India’s giant identification project. It also involves fingerprints and photographs and aims to give all 1.2 billion Indians an identity record and number for the first time.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Female protest vs. female authority. Don’t see this very often.
(credit: Kevin Frayer/AP Photo caption: Tibetan exiles are detained by Indian police at an illegal protest against the visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao in New Delhi, India. Hu is attending a summit with officials from India, Russia, Brazil and South Africa.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
In this visual day and age, the picture is mostly notable not as a protest over Tibet but for the fact that it’s sensational and showing up everywhere (in the Western media and social sphere). The way we also often relate to one photo in terms of another, it’s as if the famous 1963 photo of the self-immolating Vietnamese Buddhist monk has been updated.
via The New York Times, India Ink
( credit: Manish Swarup/Associated Press caption: Jampa Yeshi, a Tibetan protester self-immolated in New Delhi, ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to India, March 26, 2012.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Daesung Lee, an international photojournalist, spent two months photographing the people of Ghoramara Island, located in the Ganges Delta region in India’s West Bengal state. The island has been dramatically affected by global climate change.
The first photo is wonderful: the clump the boy is sitting on looks just like a wave. In the second photo, the whole problem in miniature.
(photo credit: Daesung Lee/Sipa Press caption: Daesung Lee, an international photojournalist, spent two months photographing the people of Ghoramara Island, located in the Ganges Delta region in India’s West Bengal state. The island has been dramatically affected by global climate change.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Call us when you get the tattoo.
(photo credit: Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPA caption: Snellville, US: Ruth Malhotra shows off her henna-dyed hands in support of Mitt Romney at a pancake brunch at Brookwood high school.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
The photo isn’t amazing, the subject is. India emerging as a superpower…ok, maybe.
via: Reuters
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Hopeful pic of the day: the Prime Ministers of Pakistan and India come together in the name of cricket. (Not to say the cost of security for the leaders, the match and the teams could have bankrupted a small country.)
(photo: Daniel Berehulak-Pool/Getty Images caption: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani of Pakistan and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India wave to spectators prior to the start of the 2011 ICC World Cup second Semi-Final between India and Pakistan at Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) Stadium on March 30, 2011 in Mohali, India Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/03/31/2185402/the-daily-edit-best-news-photos.html?spill=1#ixzz1ICYsNar5
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