The Quintessential India Editorial Photo

Cloaked by the world of expensive cars, cabs, motorbikes, and flights, there still exists a India, which has never seen a plane, never ridden a car, and depends on the dilapidated buses of the city transport corporation for its transport from one part of the city to another. They have the bus numbers and their schedule memorized, they know all the buses and routes, they are ready on the bus stand on time, and yet wait in the sultry sun for their delayed buses to arrive. There is a line of buses waiting before them, yet their eyes are fixed at the horizon for yet another bus, their bus.