Pipe smoker - Arunachal Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland, India.
In january 2020, before covid19 pandemy, I visited Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh, two regions in the north-east of India, near Myanmar border.
People are animist, christian, buddhist, hinduist, muslims, and they live in peace.
There is a fight to separate Nagaland from India, but most of people think that it is better to be under India protection instead of China, because Nagaland itself has not enough resources to be indipendent.
This couple lives in a village in Arunachal Pradesh. The old man was smoking her pipe, and the woman belongs to Apatani tribes, known for the pieces of wood in their nose to make them ugly and to confirm the membership to the tribe. Only old women use this practice, not younger ones, so this tradition will be loosen.
Pic taken with Sony alpha7iii.
First pic classified in top 200 on 6th 35awards competition (total number of pictures in competition was 444k).