Jean Baptiste Rabouan's Pilgrimage to Sabarimala

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Jean Baptiste Rabouan is a  widely travelled and acclaimed  French photographer of international repute. There is a hardly a  region in the world he has not visited.,He is an ardent Indophile and speaks Hindi reasonably well. He has travelled extensively through all parts of India on repeated visits. Jean Baptiste Rabouan, in the company of Akhila Bharatha Ayyappa Seva Sangham volunteers,  trekked from Erumeli to Sabarimala during the period 11 to 15th January 2000 capturing the events, faces and places typical of this pilgrimage.  Jean has travelled extensively in all parts of India.  The photographs taken by him during the visit has been published in many foreign journals including the French magazine `PELERIN' dated 19th May 2000.

After his return to France, he  sent  100  top quality photographs to ABASS for their exclusive use. Through e-mail, he also conveyed to the web master that his life was undergoing a series of  major and pleasant changes. He expressed the belief that these could probably be due to the profound experiences that he went through during his Sabarimala visit.  During his meeting  with the Web Master at Kochi, he stated that what impressed him most was the fact the pilgrims , while on pilgrimage, showed no segregation in terms of being rich or poor, businessmen or beggar. All wore the same dress, walked barefoot, braved the same hardships and never craved for personal attention or recognition. This, he said, was a unique phenomena of this pilgrimage which is unparalleled anywhere in the world.

Jean, We at ABASS thank you for your excellent coverage and invite you to visit us and Sabarimala whenever you have the inclination. 

Collector quality photographs of Jean's travels round the world are available for sale directly from Jean.  He has also recently published an authoritative book on Ladakh and `Pashmina Wool'. Viewers are  invited to visit Jean Baptiste Rabouan's home page at:

  http://www.rabouan.fr

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