Lady wearing a colourful sari in ornate passageway, Samode Palace, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, Asia

Female dancers at the opening ceremony of the Pushkar Camel Fair, Pushkar, Rajasthan, India, Asia

Female dancers at the opening ceremony of the Pushkar Camel Fair, Pushkar, Rajasthan, India, Asia

Woman in sari of Phewa Laka, Pokhara, Nepal, Asia

Sadhvi in orange red saree during Allahabad Kumbh Mela, World's largest religious gathering, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, Asia

Kothe Gate, Old City, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India, Asia

Mandi Market, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, Asia

Taj Mahal, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India, Asia

Indian family shopping in old town Udaipur, Rajasthan, Western India, Hindus and Muslims together.

Fruit vendor on beach near the Leela Hotel, Mobor, Goa, India, Asia

Adivasi women making baskets in a village in Narmada district, Gujarat, India, Asia

Clipping and finishing off a Benares silk sari, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Asia

Stallholder selling clothes and sari fabrics and other textiles at Varanasi, Northern India

Sari material, Karachi, Pakistan, Asia

Indian cow tethered for milk at farm smallholding at Kutalpura Village in Rajasthan, Northern India

Queue outside the temple for the Janmashtami Hindu festival at Bhaktivedanta Manor, Watford, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Indian villagers near Ranthambore in Rajasthan, Northern India

Street scene, Old Goa, India, Asia

Swimming pools where the court princesses would bathe, at Taman Sari, the Water Castle, a vast pleasure palace built in 1761 by Sultan Hamengku Buwono I, Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, Asia

Sari material, Karachi, Pakistan, Asia

Indian Prime Minister Indira Ghandi, India

Priest celebrating the River Ganges, Aarti by offering incense, Dashashwamedh Ghat, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, Asia

Hindu woman by artwork at Amber Fort in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, Asia

Portrait of an Indonesian carpenter man at Taman Sari, Water Castle, Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Hindu pilgrim with blue sari at Dashashwamedh Ghat in holy city of Varanasi, Benares, India

Street vendor selling saris in Jodhpur, the Blue City, Rajasthan, India, Asia

Green rice fields on the Sari Organic Walk in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Red Fort, Diwan-i-Aam audience hall, UNESCO World Heritage Site, New Delhi, India, Asia

Indian Hindu women at Qutab Minar Complex, Unesco World Heritage Site in New Delhi, India

Roadside fish seller, Kerala, India, Asia

Mother holding her young baby as she walks through the streets of Delhi, India

Indian woman with herd of goats at Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan, Northern India

Adivasi woman sticking beads onto a sari in a village in Narmada district, Gujarat, India, Asia

Woman picking cotton in Babra, Maharashtra, India, Asia

Sari Rapat (Essence of Tightness) for women's reproductive organs

Woman and grandchild, Delhi, India

Woman at Taman Sari (Water Castle), Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Group of Adivasi women making leaf plates in a village in Narmada district, Gujarat, India, Asia

Sari material, Karachi, Pakistan, Asia

Woman praying in front of a lingam, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, Asia

Taman Sari (Water Garden), underground mosque, Jogyakarta, Java, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Young Indians in an autorickshaw near Dediapada, Gujarat, India, Asia

Sari material, Karachi, Pakistan, Asia

Two ladies in traditional dress in a street market in the city of Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, Asia

Mrs Vijayalakshmi Neelakandan with complete meal in a thali covered with a banana leaf with all the dishes - rasam, pickles, salad, seasoned yogurt, rice, meat stew, potatoes, salt, fried fish, curried eggs.

A WWF project to supply electricity to a remote island in the Sunderbans, a low lying area of the Ganges Delta in Eastern India, that is very vulnerable to sea level rise. Prior to this project the subsistence farmers had no access to electricity. The project involves charging large batteries from solar panels. Each villager collects a battery to run household lighting, and returns to the recharging station once a week to recharge their battery. This shot shows women carrying the heavy batteries (20Kg) from the charging station.

A WWF project to supply electricity to a remote island in the Sunderbans, a low lying area of the Ganges Delta in Eastern India, that is very vulnerable to sea level rise. Prior to this project the subsistence farmers had no access to electricity. The project involves charging large batteries from solar panels. Each villager collects a battery to run household lighting, and returns to the recharging station once a week to recharge their battery. This shot shows women carrying the heavy batteries (20Kg) from the charging station.

Workers at a 1 MW solar power station run by Tata power on the roof of an electricity company in Delhi, India.

Women constructing solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. The use of the cookers, vastly reduces the amount of fire wood women have to go out and collect from the forest.

Women welding joints during the construction of solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Solar cookers save women having to walk to the froest to cut down wood for cooking, thus saving the forests, and a daily chore for woman.

Women on a solar workshop, learning how to make solar lanters at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Many of the women are iliterate or semi literate. They are trained from countries all over the world, so that they can take their skills back and cascade the learning.

Women on a solar workshop, learning how to make solar lanters at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Many of the women are iliterate or semi literate. They are trained from countries all over the world, so that they can take their skills back and cascade the learning.

A disabled women making nappies at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people.

Women building solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people.

Street kitchen, pakistan. Making pokharas (fried chappatis) at a food stall

Disabled women swing garments at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people.

Women on a solar workshop, learning how to make solar lanters at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Many of the women are iliterate or semi literate. They are trained from countries all over the world, so that they can take their skills back and cascade the learning.

A disabled women sewing at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people.

Women on a solar workshop, learning how to make solar lanters at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Many of the women are iliterate or semi literate. They are trained from countries all over the world, so that they can take their skills back and cascade the learning.

Women welding joints during the construction of solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Solar cookers save women having to walk to the froest to cut down wood for cooking, thus saving the forests, and a daily chore for woman.

Women on a solar workshop, learning how to make solar lanters at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Many of the women are iliterate or semi literate. They are trained from countries all over the world, so that they can take their skills back and cascade the learning.

Women constructing solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. The use of the cookers, vastly reduces the amount of fire wood women have to go out and collect from the forest.

Women welding joints during the construction of solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Solar cookers save women having to walk to the froest to cut down wood for cooking, thus saving the forests, and a daily chore for woman.

Women constructing solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people.

Women constructing solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India, demonstrate how hot the device is, by holding a sheet of newspaper which instantly sets on fire in the 300 degree Celcius heat. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. The use of the cookers, vastly reduces the amount of fire wood women have to go out and collect from the forest.

Women constructing solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people.

Women on a solar workshop, learning how to make solar lanters at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Many of the women are iliterate or semi literate. They are trained from countries all over the world, so that they can take their skills back and cascade the learning.

A Barefoot Dentist, who is trained to perform basic dentistry at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people.

Women on a solar workshop, learning how to make solar lanters at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Many of the women are iliterate or semi literate. They are trained from countries all over the world, so that they can take their skills back and cascade the learning.

Women constructing solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. The use of the cookers, vastly reduces the amount of fire wood women have to go out and collect from the forest.

Villagers in a remote subsistence farming village on an island in the Sunderbans, the Ganges Delta in Eastern India that is very vulnerable to sea level rise, gather in the rice crop after drying.

A villager woman in a remote subsistence farming village on an island in the Sunderbans, the Ganges Delta in Eastern India that is very vulnerable to sea level rise. She is cooking on a traditional clay oven, fuelled by biofuel (rice stalks), low carbon cooking.

The Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, near Vadodara, India, is a tranquil haven of humanitarian care. The Ashram is hugely sustainable, next year it will be completely carbon neutral. Its first solar panels were installed in 1984, long before climate change was on anyones agenda. Their energy is provided from solar panels, and wood grown on the estate. Waste food and animal manure is turned inot biogas to run the estates cars and also used for cooking. Solar cookers are also used, and the air conditioning for the hospital is solar run. 70 % of the food used is grown on the estate. They provide an orphanage, schools for all ages, vocational training, care for the elderly, a specialist cancer hospital withstate of the art machinary, and even have a solar crematorium. This shot shows a cook preparing chapatis on a biofuel stove.

A woman drying her rice crop in the Sunderbans, Ganges, Delta, India, the area is very low lying and vulnerable to sea level rise.

Villagers in a remote subsistence farming village on an island in the Sunderbans, the Ganges Delta in Eastern India that is very vulnerable to sea level rise, gather in the rice crop after drying.

Villagers in a remote subsistence farming village on an island in the Sunderbans, the Ganges Delta in Eastern India that is very vulnerable to sea level rise, gather in the rice crop after drying.

Woman dressed in sari, Mumbai (Bombay), Maharastra, India, Asia

Woman dressed in sari, Mumbai (Bombay), Maharastra, India, Asia

Woman in sari carrying water jar on her head, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Woman dressed in sari, Mumbai (Bombay), Maharastra, India, Asia

A woman making floral hair decorations at a street market in Mysore, India.

Woman dressed in sari, Mumbai (Bombay), Maharastra, India, Asia

Men and women working on the restoration of the Amber Fort, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

Lady in pink sari walking in Agra Fort, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Two women in brightly ed saris gossiping at the holy 'Monkey Palace' of Galta, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Village woman walking past wild population of Demoiselle cranes (Anthropoides virgo), Keechen, Rajasthan, India

Man pulling cotton sacks on cart in Chandni Chowk shopping district of New Delhi, India

Women shopping for saris, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Textiles of saris arranged in the sequence, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

African woman wearing dress outdoors

street scene, in Dasaswamedh Ghat, Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Tending the Laundry for drying, Dasaswamedh Ghat, in Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Tending the Laundry for drying, Dasaswamedh Ghat, in Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

students visiting Prem Mandir ( love temple) Temple of Divine Love, Vrindavan, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India

Bamboo to hold, at its top, baskets with offerings, in Panch Ganga Ghat, Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Men praying, in the Ghat of Yamuna river, Vrindavan, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India

Prem Mandir ( love temple) Temple of Divine Love, Vrindavan, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India

Tending the Laundry for drying, Dasaswamedh Ghat, in Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

woman and man selling flowers for the puja ceremony in Dashashwamedh ghat, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

In the ground in Pushkar Camel Fair