From A tear and a smile by Khalil Gibran.
Life is beautiful because of the deep and intense emotions we feel, the joys as much as sadness. My experiences of living and travelling in India have brought tears as well as smiles, but despite everything it’s been an incredible and memorable experience! I feel overwhelmed and will definitely return for more! A glimpse of a few beautiful and happy people through my lens 🙂
All portraits are from Pushkar in Rajasthan, Maha Kumbh at Allahabad, Varanasi and Himachal in India.
Buy flowers?
Naughty smile
Let’s play!
Shy
Happy
Those eyes!
Warm
Ghunghat (Veil)
Ethnic
Beautiful
Indian beauty
Smiles
Old
By the river Ganges
Past
Time
Pushkar
Toil
Jai ho!
Sadhu
Blessings
Dressed as God
Holy
Faith
To know more about these faces, my post on Faces of India – a wider perspective.
Color Odyssey 
Wonderful portraits Ritu – really terrific. And certainly a Color Odyssey as well!
Thanks Tina 🙂
Love the portraits!
Thanks! 🙂
nice series Ritu.. layout with larger photos would have been better 🙂
Thaanks so much Supratim! I just changed the layout 🙂 Got the same feedback! Thanks for friends like you! 🙂
Cheers!
I love it even more now !! :-))
A beautiful collection of images. Great viewing with the “on black” option.
Thanks a lot Andrew! 🙂
You have wonderful photos of people. The children are charming.
Thanks 🙂 Glad you enjoyed my images!
Gorgeous! Its funny, we have a draft with exactly the same title as this…faces in India lend themselves so beautifully to being captured on film. The people are really willing models too!
heh he! 🙂 yeah and some of our image angles and colors and so similar. Awesome! Good to see the same place through someone else perspective!
Wonderful portraits Ritu!
My favorite corner! 🙂
That is what India is… Very well captured.
Thanks 🙂
Wow amazing collection of pictures, thanks a lot for sharing this. These pictures perfectly shows different colors of India and the innocence and simplicity which people posses . Wherever we go we can easily see and relate to people and places shown in these pictures, this is something which people who are living abroad miss, probably that is.
Great shots.. Many innocent faces.
Thanks 🙂