The knife sharpener

I came across this man in a crowded street in Ahmedabad, India.He makes a living by sharpening other people's knives, scissors andother implements. He uses an improvised, bicycle-powered grindingwheel to ply his trade.

I did not have much time to make this exposure, and only when I lookedback at it, I realized that there is a lot of interesting imageryhere, despite its obvious technical limitations and cropping flaws.

The semi-finished mural to the man's right seems to depict a scenefrom the epic poem, the Bhagavad Geeta, showing a warrior wielding hismace. The cow is merely exhibiting the peaceful co-existence oftenseen between animals and human beings on Indian city streets.