Sephora cosmetics advert

Advert for Sephora cosmetics at Suria KLCC shopping Centre, Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in September 2012.

Chinese calligraphy

Chinese calligraphy materials at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, in August 2011

Cleaning up

Cleaners on Shwedagon Pagoda Road in Yangon, Burma in August 2010

Cleaning station

Cleaning brooms and bucket at a refuse collection point in Tai O village on Lantau Island, Hong Kong in July 2009

Clean oasis

This is the end of my Dera photos. The last one. Sorry, but all good things have to come to an end sometime, somewhere and somehow. And so my Dera journey also came to an end, not that I knew it at the time. But my abiding memories of the Dera and its associated philosophy are neatly encapsulated in this picture; The cleanliness and orderliness of the colony which contrasted with the dirt and decay found elsewhere in India, and the warm radiant smiles born of a philosophy where one receives by giving. This final photo was taken at the Dera Radha Soami Colony in Beas, Punjab, India in January 1990.