This work is based on my three travels in North and South of India from 2006 to 2013. My choice to split the photos in two books is due to the large number of the issues and of the files, that makes a solo book too cumbersome.
There is no distinction in the two books between the States, because in my view India offers a homogeneous global feature. As stressed also recently by the writer Arundhati Roy, all India is ruled by a caste-based oligarchic system. This oligarchic system based on the dominance of the upper castes, has lasted for thousands of years. The only mode of change has so far expressed by the violence of the lower castes against the upper castes of millennial violence, as it is masterfully told by Aravind Adiga in the book "The White Tiger" (Booker Prize 2008). While the widespread and almost never denounced violence by men against women of lower caste "Dalits" shows how the "untouchability" of the lower castes is just a sham for purposes of power, social and economic.
The title does not mean that this book (the first of two) claims to give a photographic comprehensive review of all features of India, but that in India there is man in his complexity, with all depths of his psyche , with his sometimes enormous intellectual intelligence , his emotional intelligence, and with his often excessive emotionality. For these reasons, India upsets us and we can not fail to return, in search of all hidden or locked up inside of us.