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      <title>Tea Stall at Dusk</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The stall is the kind that has no name and needs none. Two benches, a kerosene stove, a kettle that has been on the stove since before I was born. The owner pours from a height that no manual would teach you, and the tea arrives already half-cooled, which is the point.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I had been walking for three hours and the light was the colour of old brass. I sat down on the end of the bench and ordered without speaking; he had seen me before. While I waited I watched a schoolgirl in a uniform two sizes too large negotiate, with great seriousness, a single glass to share with her younger brother.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The picture is not of them. The picture is of the kettle.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>Morning on MG Road</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I arrived at half past six, when the shutters were still down and the only conversation on the block was between a chai vendor and the boy he had sent for change. The city had not yet decided to be itself for the day. The air smelled faintly of rain that hadn&amp;rsquo;t fallen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I waited on the corner with the camera at my chest, watching how the light moved between the awnings. There was a brief minute when a man walked past in a checked shirt the same colour as the sky, and the geometry of the street folded around him, and I made the picture without thinking — which is the only way I know how to make pictures that work.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By seven the auto-rickshaws had arrived and the morning was over.&lt;/p&gt;
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