Shngain, Jed and Bah Hep

Shngain, Jed and Bah Hep
Shngain, Jed and Bah Hep have also got a one-year contract from the Municipality to collect toll from the buses on the ground floor. They are responsible for the upkeep of the entire bus stand and seem to be in the know of all that happens there. We had asked Shngain to take photographs of the bus stand and anything else that he felt would be relevant in the context of the bus stand and the area.

When we were sharing the photographs with Shngain, he told us that Bah Hep and Jed also took pictures. Almost all the photographs were of the bus stand and the adjoining areas of Iewduh. Shngain’s photographs were taken from his toll booth at the entrance of the Anjali parking lot. Jed took photographs of the bus stand at almost the same hour in the afternoon, when the buses were leaving the bus stand. Bah Hep (the Khasi term of reference for a middle brother) took photographs inside and outside the bus stand, the road leading from the bus stand to Iewduh and the old parking lot which was a slushy patch of land on the fringes of Iewduh. Everyone spoke about the mud and the filth of this place especially during the monsoons. Bah Hep used to manage the toll collection here earlier. Even though this was the first time that he had used a camera, he was very particular about all his photographs and he was very certain of the reasons for each of his photographs.

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