Bathers

The shore is lined with bathers and professional Dhobi or laundry washers. These are mostly men because the beating of the wet clothes on the rocks requires stamina. Like most other traditional occupations this work is passed down in families. For bathers there is no longer segregation by sex, but some women prefer to bathe together. The lady sitting alone in one of the pictures is a resident of a hospice and has come to make the best possible death for a Hindhu.