00:00Wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:04First, let's go.
00:09Wait, take left.
00:12We'll see the synagogue again.
00:16We'll see who's ready again.
00:19If something's wrong, please put something wrong.
00:23No, I haven't.
00:30I'd like to congratulate both Namaskar and Rajesh for this wonderful book and exhibition.
00:39It was some months back when Rajesh shared his work with me.
00:43It's really stunning to see such brilliance on the page.
00:56Such amazing moments that are captured from this very historic event that we have in India.
01:04So I thought showcasing the different emotions of India in many ways and the power of faith, passion.
01:23So it's a really amazing piece of work and I really congratulate both of you and thank you all for this work that you have done.
01:31For example, I couldn't visit a year ago.
01:35So for someone like me who's been unable to visit, it's taking me there.
01:40The photographs really gave me into it. So I really like to thank you all.
01:45And amazing work. And as Rajesh was saying, there are two reasons why I think I'm here in October.
01:56One of them is videos I've heard in Rajesh.
02:00So I'm really happy to be here this evening and to join with the joy of this evening. Thank you so much.
02:07Just looking at all the images, most of them I know extremely into the play because I lived with the book for a while.
02:21And studied it mostly because I've been to the coombe. I've been to the earlier big coombe.
02:29I've gone with my sisters and my young daughter at the time. And I've been to two other mini cooms.
02:36So for me it was like going to write back into something that was a deeply immersed and a deeply moving experience.
02:45But what I noticed in these pictures or the selection of these pictures is how much has changed.
02:51Now we have sent free sadhus. There are sadhus wearing shapes like how they were wearing his movies.
02:58See those two pictures.
03:00And a lot of sadhus captured taking their own pictures.
03:06So there's a whole different story of social media impacting some of the oldest apparats.
03:14They are now very well aware of what it means, what the book means, the power of iconography, the power of imagery.
03:23And that whole transition was for me as a journalist writer very fascinating.
03:30It's a big departure. Also the number of women that you have photographed this time.
03:37As compared to the number of women who were there the last time I went to before.
03:44I wanted to ask you both whether there is a difference between quoting yourself a spiritual person or religious person.
03:56Is there a thing that I want to ask you both if there is a difference between quoting yourself a spiritual person or a religious person?
04:05Thank you, thank you.
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