It’s festival Time in India. I was in Varanasi (Benares) during Durga Puja and took a breakneck bicycle rickshaw drive trough the streets – highly recommended in a city offering hash and opium on every corner.
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Festivals are pretty darn festive. Here’s a shot from “Outer Space” (you know, about 62 miles away) of India during Diwali, the Festival of Lights, from www.punjabiportal.com. May be fake; may not matter.
The photo isn’t fake, but it is manipulated…its from an infographic of nighttime shots, color coded to decade. So those big patches of color were, at some point white.