The water around the man appeared as a dress.Soon he will reach the land.Its a common belief that the life formed in the water millions of years back and reached the land.For a fraction of a second the scene actually brought me to that point when the history of this earth was written.
The hat, the plastic bag, bargaining customers, stubborn sellers, farmers with products in old urea bags, agents hunting out the best prices and the endless voices of sellers calling you to buy their vegetables, a tightly packed bustling authentic market in Jaffna - Sri Lanka.
Villagers Playing dam, a popular board game in a rural grocery shop in Sri Lanka
The village now gets the electricity even though the narrow muddy roads are usually soaked in darkness.The tradition still continues, where many villagers used to carry fire torches or electronic torches during the night times.It is more economical for them as most of them are generally poor farmers.Mobile phones would not work inside the village, except few CDMA phones.Only few families got the luxary to have them at their houses.
A jackfruit seller in a busy market in Jaffna peninsula - Sri Lanka.
An old man reading a newspaper sitting near the posters related to communism, pasted on the wall of a ruined house in Jaffna - Sri Lanka
A fisherman walking at a beach through a small sand storm - Sri Lanka
A father and his child inside a passenger boat which runs between the pungudutivu and Nainativu ports in Jaffna-Sri Lanka.Daily hundreds of people travel between these islands to reach the famous Nagapooshani Amman Temple, and Naagavihara in Nainativu.
Few children at a Sunday Buddhism teaching school in a rural Buddhist temple in Sri Lanka having their lunch together under the shadows of a tree on a bright sunny day.
After decades long civil war in Sri Lanka, the lifes of people in the war affected areas are slowly returning back to the routine.This man, a betel nut and leaf seller, put up his own shop in a small market and mostly seen busy with cutting the nuts into pieces, which he will later sell along with few betel leafs in a pack called "kooru".
Farmers are seeding grains in the farmlands in Anuradhapura - Sri Lanka, South East Asia
A cinnamon Trader peeling the raw material from a cinnamon tree.It will be then dried for days to produce fine cinnoman sticks - Sri Lanka
Kooththu performances gather a significant amount of people from the villages.Usually an open space of a bare land is selected, preferably near a Hindu temple.This is then converted into a kooththu theatre surrounding which the audience will sit and watch the performances for 3 to 5 hours.This time duration is considered one of the reason ,the kooththu became unpopular in this fast-paced world.It is usual to see few people asleep on the bare ground.
Fishing Boats leaving the shore for fishing in Batticaloa sea during dusk.They will return next day with a big catch - Batticaloa , Sri Lanka
Few women carrying firewoods on their heads.A common village scene in most parts of Asia specially in Sri Lanka.
Group of school children standing at the edge of top most part of Sigiriya Rock Fortress with the beautiful landscape in the background at dusk- a Unesco World Heritage site in Sri Lanka
Silhouette of a man riding bicycle with a cigarette in one hand at sunset - Sri Lanka
Across various religions that are being practiced in Sri Lanka rituals have a major role in keeping the systems intact and help in their existence.The way of approaching a particular religion, have differences according to the geographical boundaries.Major differences lie in the way rituals are performed across the country."Saamiyaattam" - Holy Dance - is very common in Batticaloa District, Eastern Sri Lanka- compare to the Northern Sri Lanka.These are specially performed at the small temples for rural Hindu deities.Few selected men will dress and behave as they have the power of god within them and during the performance of various gestures, the devotees believe that telling their problem to this men can be taken as telling them straight to the god.Here a young man during an annual festival of a rural temple, dressed and behaves as 'Lord Hanuman'-The Monkey God.He will usually seen climbing on a tree, sitting at the top shouting and giving expressions of a monkey, throwing bananas to the devotees below.The one who catches the fruits is considered as received blessing from the god and so many people will wait for it to happen to them.
A lonely passenger inside the famous Yaldevi train in Sri Lanka