On the Road

Accident warning, Indian style!

Trucks and buses incapacitated on the Indian road side are quite common, to warn oncoming traffic of the danger, drivers often stick branches at the back….

Signs and Boards

The Bruce Sterling effect!

A small parenthesis from our usual posts. On the 18th (this past Saturday) one of our tweets was re-tweeted by Bruce Sterling of wired.com blog, Beyond The Beyond. Here is the effect on our stats reports…

The earlier peak was for our Independence Day post.

On the Road

Two by one?

Probably the wife and the mother-in-law…. 😉 Two by one is a play on a a regular Indian expression, One by Two, where we love to share with our friends, relatives and companions. One by Two literally means something shared fifty-fifty. So if you happen to step into an eatery and ask for a coffee one-by-two, the waiter will bring you one coffee and an empty cup so you can share it. This is India Only!

On the Road

Loading it up; new Indian mini-truck!

On the Road

One brick at a time!

Ingenious, close observation reveals that there is very careful planning of the brick layout, which means this is a regular work: from the hole left to take control of the handle bar along with a gunny bag to protect the arm; to the rear bottommost brick placed in order to stabilise the entire column of bricks and stop them slipping off the rear; as well as the first brick placed on the cycle chain pedaller to build the edifice. Brilliant!

On the Road

Innovative transportation

Spotted in the Crowd

Joyous Mother India day!

Independence! On 15th August 1947, India became a nation when the English finally handed over power. Although India was a united land well before that, the divide and rule policy of the British left a big scar on the nation which is still today felt in the divisional politics of caste and religion and increasingly of race too. Interestingly enough, recent DNA studies across India have revealed that there is in fact little variance and all our great nation descends from two common race cutting across religious and caste divides.

Our independence day is one to remember that we have a lot of work still left to erase some of these prejudices and divides, and build a nation that encompasses the need of all our brothers and sisters. Like this last photo of a street child beaming joyfully clutching a handful of flags, India is foremost a nation of joy.

Signs and Boards

You are warned, do no accident please!

Spotted in the Crowd

Getting some privacy…

Indian society is still very conservative when it comes to public display of intimacy and young often live with their parents till they are married, so young couples have a tough time finding secluded spots failing which hiding themselves behind trees or in this case umbrellas makes them go unnoticed.