Lord Shiva and his wife Parvati are probably the most famous couple in India, and although married many thousands of years ago, they still maintain more bling than even Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai :-)

Last night I went to Old Delhi for the Ram Barat procession that went through Sadar Bazar and Chandni Chowk. I wanted to photograph the trucks for the trucking book, but it turned out there were no trucks and the procession was all bullock carts. A bit disappointing, but I did manage to get these fun pictures that I might end up using for my book on Indian weddings. It is just that I couldn’t understand why they were so serious and didn’t even give a single smile. Are they told to be serious, or were they simply boiling inside the costumes? We finished the evening with a quick bite at Paratha wali gali. They still make some mean parathas there :-)

A young boy dressed as Lord Shiva, and a girl dressed as his wife, Parvati, on a carriage during the Ramlila procession in Old Delhi. Why do the have to be so serious? must have been realy hot under this costume . .

Uniformed members of a wedding procession band ride on horses during the Ramlila procession in Old Delhi, September 2009