oreet...angelia and me...out on last sunday

with what degree of transversing would one be satisfied.

dressed as a conservative....slightly shabby nearly middle aged jewish lower middle class male.Oreet was out being tourist in delhi. early summer sunday.....great light for a photo shoot....and certain delights Oreet went through...i could only sense..but could never be a part of. the act of gender crossing had shielded Oreet from the male gaze ...'letting her be' for a while. By the time we arrived at the delli haat, angelia (oreet,s friend a practising psycologist from london who has teken a holiday and come down on a holiday to assist oreet in the final week of the residency) were already high on some grass.....tripping and looking forward to some nice photo shoot. it was fun vdo shooting oreet having her potrait sketched...one could see that the potrait artist had taken oreet to be a male...a sharply depicted angular jaw line sealed this observation. people dropped in to see what was going on...drawn in by the odd looking jewish man and the cameras. Some lunch...some shopping later we came back to the potrait guy....this time with oreet having an palestenian scrarf over her/his head...... This time s/he attracted much more attention. The catchy

red and white pattern....and the scarf giving her gender identity an interesting twist. some of the onlookers could actually sense that it was a difficult potratit to sketch...and soon a small crowd gathered around the artist to watch him render the potrait. it was apparent that the artist was by now completely confused about Oreet's gender identity....maybe even a wee bit disturbed. this infact went on to affect the quality of his work....at the end we got a confused sketch.....disappointing a bit too. However....must admit the guy is very good with capturing expressions of the eyes and capturing a vurnerable expression.

out of delhi haat we went.....had kind of a bad trip when we could neither locate our cab....nor its driver. ........off we went for a drive around lutyens's delhi....the grassy fields around India Gate.......in the evening sun was really inviting. we picked up some beer and got back there........being brought up in india was feling a bit tied up about drinkin around in public spaces...but oreet and angelia cared a heck. ...big time heck. by now oreet's moustache kind of had begun to melt in the sun....and s/he was beginning attract a whole lot of attention. .......As soon as we took our cameras out a crowd had begun to gather and .....hooo soon we were absolutely swarmed. being stared at by a crowd (an interesting collection of kids, toddlers brash youthful men and women of the family) .........my instant reaction to being stared upon was to take out the spare still camera and click away at our 'audience'....this lead to a friendly exchange of random clicking....loads of group photograph.......then peace as the crowd disspersed.

at this point oreet took off her moustash....making her feel more comfortable....and behold her persona comletely changed....suddenly she was transformed into this.....smart sexy jewish boy..... Oreet's change in appreance had a significant impact over our outing....suddenly s/he stopped attracting attention...allowing us to chill and open our beer cans.

as the evening drew to a clso .....some how the clours began to make a sharper imapct (was that due to the beer) ...angelia and i moved into our shutter happy mode while oreet was just lazing around in sheer relish. it had been hard...and fun days work for us and thia was really winding down . light soon started to fade and.....could no longer carry on our clickin spree....it was time to call the day off.....and venture into the evening??? we moved on to the alliance francaise and watthc a movie