what you did not see on TV and local newspapers
And that's only the central part of the crowd. The swarm was wider than my widest lens....
Addendum - how many people?
If you look at the top picture, you'll see that there were 15-16 people seated on the stage. This suggests that the stage was about 9 metres wide and 5 metres deep.
Now look at the bigger photo. Using the dimensions of the stage as the yardstick, and allowing for the fact that the bottom of the photo would be on a different scale from the back of the photo (due to perspective), I estimate that the area covered by the photo, excluding the road at the back, would be about 150m across and about 200m from bottom of picture to nearly the road.
That's 30,000 sq. metres. This being the thickest part of the crowd, the density was about 3 persons per sq. metre (they were standing shoulder to shoulder - see bottom picture). That means the total number of people encompassed by the bigger picture was about 90,000.
Add those outside the picture (less dense), and perhaps the total number of people at the rally was 100,000 - 120,000.
....Yawning Bread
A picture speaks a thousands of words...and it spoke well and was an awesome sight that amazed me when i took the first glance...
Yawning Bread furthers:-
....Most of the others, however, chose to start leaving. Each of the human backs that had formed the wall in front of me swivelled around to walk past me.
It was then that I saw the face of the man who had been in front of me for the last few minutes. Turning around to depart, he was just 50 cm from my eyes. For a brief moment, we were face to face -- he, a gaunt old man with sunken eyes, a grey crewcut and white stubble.
He had his gnarled hand up against the corner of his eyes, smoothening out the tears. Yes, he had been crying....
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