05
Oct
Compared to the women back in Amman, women here appear empowered, walking to work and running cash registers. It’s during Dasara that the gap between lower-income men and women in Bangalore becomes obvious. The festival is marked by families across the country, but from the street you’d think it had been declared for men. Men in old white clothes and markedly fewer women in bright saris half-strolled, half-danced along the street, keeping pace by the icons rolling like Thanksgiving floats.
