This summarises a lot of customary activity one can spot in any public places in India.

A bar advertising….chilled beer 🙂

This was taken at a tea estate, it is common to find loose leaf tea for purchase when visiting some of these estates, but it not very common to be able to drink the stuff has there isn’t any Salon de Thé 🙂

A small background note: Alcohol distribution is handled by the state governments in India, with each state having its own archaic rules.  Here is a funny event in Bangalore (the sillicon valley of India), beer being a favourite thirst quencher of the IT crowd.  The administration in this case was obviously at pains to get rid of excess liquor on their hands.  Typical Indian administration is still reliant on an army of workers and mountains of paper work. In a growing market no one is able to keep track of demand and therefore mismatch between supply and demand occur… some clerk obviously ordered too much brandy!  Now what you should also know is that the head of these administration empires are unlikely to brainstorm on a problem and rather impose a solution! The article is well worth a read.

What ever the message, it is clear that clean and green is the way

It is important to display signs in English to attract the foreigners as well as the Indian tourist from other Indian states.  Although India has Hindi as its national language, it is only prevalent in northern states of India… so English remains the defacto national language for many educated and affluent class.