Today and Monday are Independence Days for Pakistan and India, respectively. This wire service photograph was used in an American newspaper on October 6, 1947, three weeks afterwards.  I found the image on ebay and knew I would use it for my next post.  One girl wears salwar with a floral kameez, the other a plain white saree with a coloured border.  Her blouse has little cap sleeves and a round neckline, embellished with a line of embroidery or print and she has just one narrow bangle on each arm.  “Less is more” can be taken as a symbol of whatever one chooses, but I think it’s proof that utterly simple beauty transcends almost everything.

Only Gandhi’s name was on the photo, though most of those around him may be identifiable.  However, I prefer the group’s anonymity as representatives of the past, the history of a turbulent era and great hopes for a better future.  Of course we are that future, and I needn’t ask the obvious rhetorical question, but I will.   Are things better now?  

Oh yes - many things have improved!  Now if everybody on our planet could please work together to help make it less turbulent….