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Bro, excellent bro. Thanks for sharing a piece of life in India.
One of these days, we need to sit down lim kopi (or tiger beer), and just talk bro...
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Bro, excellent bro. Thanks for sharing a piece of life in India.
One of these days, we need to sit down lim kopi (or tiger beer), and just talk bro...
any time ,day or night SIR !
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i am in town till 15 SEPT 2010
*my next trip HCM CITY /Vietnam 16 sept - 06 OCt 2010
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Slumdog Tourism
By KENNEDY ODEDE
Published: August 9, 2010
SLUM tourism has a long history during the late 1800s, lines of wealthy New Yorkers snaked along the Bowery and through the Lower East Side to see how the other half lives.
But with urban populations in the developing world expanding rapidly, the opportunity and demand to observe poverty firsthand have never been greater. The hot spots are Rio de Janeiro, Mumbai thanks to Slumdog Millionaire, the film that started a thousand tours and my home, Kibera, a Nairobi slum that is perhaps the largest in Africa.
Slum tourism has its advocates, who say it promotes social awareness. And its good money, which helps the local economy.
But its not worth it. Slum tourism turns poverty into entertainment, something that can be momentarily experienced and then escaped from. People think theyve really seen something and then go back to their lives and leave me, my family and my community right where we were before.
I was 16 when I first saw a slum tour. I was outside my 100-square-foot house washing dishes, looking at the utensils with longing because I hadnt eaten in two days. Suddenly a white woman was taking my picture. I felt like a tiger in a cage. Before I could say anything, she had moved on.
When I was 18, I founded an organization that provides education, health and economic services for Kibera residents. A documentary filmmaker from Greece was interviewing me about my work. As we made our way through the streets, we passed an old man defecating in public. The woman took out her video camera and said to her assistant, Oh, look at that.
For a moment I saw my home through her eyes: feces, rats, starvation, houses so close together that no one can breathe. I realized I didnt want her to see it, didnt want to give her the opportunity to judge my community for its poverty a condition that few tourists, no matter how well intentioned, could ever understand.
Other Kibera residents have taken a different path. A former schoolmate of mine started a tourism business. I once saw him take a group into the home of a young woman giving birth. They stood and watched as she screamed. Eventually the group continued on its tour, cameras loaded with images of a woman in pain. What did they learn? And did the woman gain anything from the experience?
To be fair, many foreigners come to the slums wanting to understand poverty, and they leave with what they believe is a better grasp of our desperately poor conditions. The expectation, among the visitors and the tour organizers, is that the experience may lead the tourists to action once they get home.
But its just as likely that a tour will come to nothing. After all, looking at conditions like those in Kibera is overwhelming, and I imagine many visitors think that merely bearing witness to such poverty is enough.
Nor do the visitors really interact with us. Aside from the occasional comment, there is no dialogue established, no conversation begun. Slum tourism is a one-way street: They get photos; we lose a piece of our dignity.
Slums will not go away because a few dozen Americans or Europeans spent a morning walking around them. There are solutions to our problems but they wont come about through tours.
Kennedy Odede, the executive director of Shining Hope for Communities, a social services organization, is a junior at Wesleyan University.
By KENNEDY ODEDE
Published: August 9, 2010
SLUM tourism has a long history during the late 1800s, lines of wealthy New Yorkers snaked along the Bowery and through the Lower East Side to see how the other half lives.
But with urban populations in the developing world expanding rapidly, the opportunity and demand to observe poverty firsthand have never been greater. The hot spots are Rio de Janeiro, Mumbai thanks to Slumdog Millionaire, the film that started a thousand tours and my home, Kibera, a Nairobi slum that is perhaps the largest in Africa.
Slum tourism has its advocates, who say it promotes social awareness. And its good money, which helps the local economy.
But its not worth it. Slum tourism turns poverty into entertainment, something that can be momentarily experienced and then escaped from. People think theyve really seen something and then go back to their lives and leave me, my family and my community right where we were before.
I was 16 when I first saw a slum tour. I was outside my 100-square-foot house washing dishes, looking at the utensils with longing because I hadnt eaten in two days. Suddenly a white woman was taking my picture. I felt like a tiger in a cage. Before I could say anything, she had moved on.
When I was 18, I founded an organization that provides education, health and economic services for Kibera residents. A documentary filmmaker from Greece was interviewing me about my work. As we made our way through the streets, we passed an old man defecating in public. The woman took out her video camera and said to her assistant, Oh, look at that.
For a moment I saw my home through her eyes: feces, rats, starvation, houses so close together that no one can breathe. I realized I didnt want her to see it, didnt want to give her the opportunity to judge my community for its poverty a condition that few tourists, no matter how well intentioned, could ever understand.
Other Kibera residents have taken a different path. A former schoolmate of mine started a tourism business. I once saw him take a group into the home of a young woman giving birth. They stood and watched as she screamed. Eventually the group continued on its tour, cameras loaded with images of a woman in pain. What did they learn? And did the woman gain anything from the experience?
To be fair, many foreigners come to the slums wanting to understand poverty, and they leave with what they believe is a better grasp of our desperately poor conditions. The expectation, among the visitors and the tour organizers, is that the experience may lead the tourists to action once they get home.
But its just as likely that a tour will come to nothing. After all, looking at conditions like those in Kibera is overwhelming, and I imagine many visitors think that merely bearing witness to such poverty is enough.
Nor do the visitors really interact with us. Aside from the occasional comment, there is no dialogue established, no conversation begun. Slum tourism is a one-way street: They get photos; we lose a piece of our dignity.
Slums will not go away because a few dozen Americans or Europeans spent a morning walking around them. There are solutions to our problems but they wont come about through tours.
Kennedy Odede, the executive director of Shining Hope for Communities, a social services organization, is a junior at Wesleyan University.
dingzyangz
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buzz!!! you have shown an amazing side of India. 
really... every pictures speaks for itself...
your ability to connect with ur subjects really amaze me... O_O
hehe.. I doubt I can ever do it... lol.
really... every pictures speaks for itself...
your ability to connect with ur subjects really amaze me... O_O
hehe.. I doubt I can ever do it... lol.
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cubo21
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hi TungTong,
your title shd be Super TungTong in Super India 2010, what you do are indeed thoughts provoking. You have capture not the best pictures but pictures many of us (me definitely) dont even have an opportunities to chance upon because of reluctancy than any other reasons. Simply superb series! waiting to see more. cheers! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
your title shd be Super TungTong in Super India 2010, what you do are indeed thoughts provoking. You have capture not the best pictures but pictures many of us (me definitely) dont even have an opportunities to chance upon because of reluctancy than any other reasons. Simply superb series! waiting to see more. cheers! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
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wow dood excellent PJ perspective in India. I was there a while back in Kolkata and Shillong and it was an interesting trip to say the least but it was a working trip nonetheless so I didnt grab any photos.
like ur style. keep it up.
THANKS FOR SUPPORT ! ! !:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
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like your photoso much
Kedarnath Temple
Kedarnath Mandir (Hindi: केदारनाथ मंदिर, Kēdārnāth Maṃdir) is one of the holiest Hindu temples dedicated to Lord Shiva and is located atop the Garhwal Himalayan range near the Mandakini river in Kedarnath, Uttarakhand in India. Due to extreme weather conditions, the temple is open only between the end of April to start of November. Here god Shiva is worshipped as Kedarnath, the 'Lord of Kedar Khand', the historical name of the region.
The temple is not directly accessible by road and has to be reached by a 14 km uphill trek from Gaurikund. The temple is believed to have been built by Adi Sankaracharya [1] and is one of the twelve Jyotirlingas, the holiest Hindu shrines of Shiva. The older temple existed from the times of Mahabharata, when the Pandavas are supposed to have pleased Shiva by doing penance in Kedarnath. The temple is also one of the four major sites in India's Chota Char Dham pilgrimage of Northern Himalayas.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qo8_okmhRA&feature=related
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Kedarnath Mandir (Hindi: केदारनाथ मंदिर, Kēdārnāth Maṃdir) is one of the holiest Hindu temples dedicated to Lord Shiva and is located atop the Garhwal Himalayan range near the Mandakini river in Kedarnath, Uttarakhand in India. Due to extreme weather conditions, the temple is open only between the end of April to start of November. Here god Shiva is worshipped as Kedarnath, the 'Lord of Kedar Khand', the historical name of the region.
The temple is not directly accessible by road and has to be reached by a 14 km uphill trek from Gaurikund. The temple is believed to have been built by Adi Sankaracharya [1] and is one of the twelve Jyotirlingas, the holiest Hindu shrines of Shiva. The older temple existed from the times of Mahabharata, when the Pandavas are supposed to have pleased Shiva by doing penance in Kedarnath. The temple is also one of the four major sites in India's Chota Char Dham pilgrimage of Northern Himalayas.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qo8_okmhRA&feature=related
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