Pondicherry Bikers

Pondi is full of women on scooters and cycles. In other Indian cities too there are plenty of women drivers, but in Pondi it seemed like a quarter to a third of the two-wheelers were driven by women.

There are no helmet laws, though apparently Kiran Bedi, the Governor, is trying to implement them.

White-haired women, college girls, women going to work, mothers dropping children to school. Women in salwars, churidars, saris and full burqas: lots of flowing fabric.

(Faces blurred where visible)


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