Showing posts with label rannikot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rannikot. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Portraits: Gabol children, Rannikot

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Approx. 500-600 villagers live within the formidable walls of Rannikot fort (also pronounced locally as Runnikot). These people belong to Baloch tribe of Gabol and are fiercely independent. And much unlike the Sindhis around them, their women usually do not perform any purdah (i.e., they don't cover their faces from strangers). In fact, purdah system is not enforced across Balochistan province, which lies just next to this area.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Herding donkeys, Rannikot

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I found one of the Gabol women herding water from the Runni stream under the shadows of the fort during one of my trips to Rannikot. As a photographer it is a joy to shoot such traditional people going about their age old works.