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Country:
India
/ Village: Pushkar
Ethnic Group: Kalbeliya /
Feature:
Music
& Dance
Suresh, the Kalbeliya Gypsy clan leader, and Sopina,
one of the dancing Queens, have a hard time getting up. It is cold
until the sun breaks through the clouds.
Excerpt from the Kalbeliya story: "His home was nothing more than a
couple of old beds covered with old blankets and pierced plastic tarps
set in the middle of the desert. Their only protection was a four-foot
tall wall of dried bushes. The walls did not really protect them from
the wind, but they offered them a little privacy from the dozen or so
other clans that lived twenty yards away. No bricks, no adobe, no
clay, no wood--there was nothing that looked like a permanent or even
temporary home. A bit of earth had been packed in one place to
accommodate a small fire pit. A few broken bags on and under the two
beds contained all the clan’s belongings."
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