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Sunday, July 7, 2013

The strutting peacocks of the India-Pakistan border



An excerpt from a BBC produced film on modern India.

The moment of fascination for me is the border-closing ceremony at the Wagah Attari border between India and Pakistan.

The "strutting peacocks," as the voiceover says, mimic one another with a ferocity that takes this ceremony to another level--of ego and competition.

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