{"id":274,"date":"2017-08-13T20:20:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T20:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com?p=274"},"modified":"2020-07-02T17:27:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T17:27:04","slug":"and-finally-i-went-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"And finally I went to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the age of about thirteen I have wanted to go to India. I grew up in a community with many Asian friends (I learned to make chapatis when I was ten) and have always loved their culture, food, colour and clothes. Finally some thirty years later I did. It did not disappoint. The colour, the people, the design and the food all lived up to my expectations and beyond. This image captures a really lovely moment between this couple. It expresses much of what I experienced, colour, beauty and kindness. The other reason I love this image is because the window (or possibly its twin in the same room) is featured on the front cover of my all time favourite book &#8216;Colour: Travels Through a Paint Box&#8217; by Victoria Findlay 2002. If you are interested in history, travel and colour then this is a book for you. Full of interesting anecdotes about the origins of colour, starting with ochres in Australia moving on to white in China, lapis lazuli mines in Afghanistan, mango eating cows in India and on and on around the world. Well worth a read!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-293\" src=\"https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.comwp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_8714-735x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"735\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_8714-735x1024.jpg 735w, https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_8714-600x836.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_8714-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/thenomadicnortherner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_8714-768x1070.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 268px; left: 20px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the age of about thirteen I have wanted to go to India. I grew up in a community with many Asian friends (I learned to make chapatis when I was ten) and have always loved their culture, food, colour and clothes. 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