The Road Chronicles: An Ode to the Labourer

A PHOTO EXHIBITION

Galerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Francaise de Delhi

Exhibition on view: 11th-15th October, 2015, 11am – 8pm

This project tells a human story of the Hindustan-Tibet Road and the Manali-Leh Highway. It is envisaged as an alternative travelogue – that tells the stories of the 90,000 or so seasonal labourers who travel every year to build roads in the upper reaches of the Himalayas for India’s Border Roads Organization (BRO). Their life stories; seasonal journeys; meanings given to their temporary homes in the border areas; the dangers and perils they face; the attempts to create a sense of the community in an alien landscape; lifestyles and cultural idioms carried over (and back) from their villages; the lives of the children who travel each year with their parents, the recipes of the meals cooked……all of this and more forms the content of the travelogue.

View more event details here: http://delhi.afindia.org/events/exhibition-the-road-chronicles/