No Choice, India 1989
No Choice, India 1989
I came across this man, who was a dwarf and found out he was a SADHU, which also means a HOLY MAN. Because of the caste system, if you are born disabled in India, you did something in your previous life. It has to do with your karma. Why I titled this image NO CHOICE as you can imagine, if you are born with a disability you end up either begging or in his case as a HOLY MAN (SADHU) which properly takes you up the ladder of respect for himself at least .I imagined this man probably had to fend for himself from a very young age as society tends to discard disabled people.
For him, there is NO CHOICE.
I came across this man, who was a dwarf and found out he was a SADHU, which also means a HOLY MAN. Because of the caste system, if you are born disabled in India, you did something in your previous life. It has to do with your karma. Why I titled this image NO CHOICE as you can imagine, if you are born with a disability you end up either begging or in his case as a HOLY MAN (SADHU) which properly takes you up the ladder of respect for himself at least .I imagined this man probably had to fend for himself from a very young age as society tends to discard disabled people.
For him, there is NO CHOICE.
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