I am back in Mumbai. It seems the security is beefed up only in a cosmetic sort of way. I worry about India's ability to authentically head off attacks.
Anyway, more later.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Tami - Day 3
Interview with Tami, Day 3....
What has surprised you most about India: Oh, God. [laughs] The men peeing on the side of the road..... in abundance. That's it's common to see that.....
What's the most beautiful thing you've seen in India thus far?: I guess it would have to be when we bought bananas on the side of the road and the people that lived there lived in such a little open brick dwelling yet they were so nice and had beautiful smiles and their clothing was so colorful. It was the beauty of the spirit of the country that I saw....
If you come back to India in 20 years, what would you like to see changed?: I'd like to see the trash removed. A ruin is fine being an old dusty ruin (they visited Golconda today), but the trash around the perimeter of it doesn't need to be there. That would be nice to see changed.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Snaps
Here are some of Tami's photographs. She has a great eye and a really good camera. Click on any of the photos to get the large version of the same.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Visitor
We have a visitor, Tami Reilly, one of Tara's long time friends from home. It is the first, and probably only, friend visit amongst Tara's life-long friends, so she is very excited. Tami and Tara are spending the night at the Marriott here in Hyd - leading the good life, as it were. Good for them.
Tami has a unique affinity to India. She is a yoga instructor, and has done some innovative blending of vinyasa yoga and spin cycling. She is here to train some people in Delhi at a fitness club, stopping off to see us first.
It is always fun to see India through a newbies eyes. Especially Tami, who has a great knowledge of India and has never been here. Additionally, I sense that perhaps she has a perspective that is based largely on the idealized India, the exotic India that occupies the mind of many in the West. She turned to Tara during her first day, a bit appalled by what she was seeing, and said, "Is that man just going to pee right there on the side of the street?" To which one must laugh, as urination is the most tepid gastric display on the streets of India.
Overall, it has been fun to have a visitor, and the pictures she has been taking will be posted on the blog soon, if she is cool with that.
She is here 'til Thursday.
Welcome Tami! Namaste!
Tami has a unique affinity to India. She is a yoga instructor, and has done some innovative blending of vinyasa yoga and spin cycling. She is here to train some people in Delhi at a fitness club, stopping off to see us first.
It is always fun to see India through a newbies eyes. Especially Tami, who has a great knowledge of India and has never been here. Additionally, I sense that perhaps she has a perspective that is based largely on the idealized India, the exotic India that occupies the mind of many in the West. She turned to Tara during her first day, a bit appalled by what she was seeing, and said, "Is that man just going to pee right there on the side of the street?" To which one must laugh, as urination is the most tepid gastric display on the streets of India.
Overall, it has been fun to have a visitor, and the pictures she has been taking will be posted on the blog soon, if she is cool with that.
She is here 'til Thursday.
Welcome Tami! Namaste!
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Friday, January 2, 2009
The New Year
When the year changes here in India, there is an explosion of well wishes, all of which focus on having a "happy and prosperous 2009". The e.mails are filled with pictures of fireworks and dancing silhouettes, and the text messages are heart-felt.
I thought I would share an SMS that I got on New Years Eve, typed exactly as I got it:
Before 2008 ends, let me Thank all the good people like U who made '2008' beautiful 4 me. i pray u b blssed with lovely years ahead! HAVE A WONDERFUL 2009.
You just aren't going to get that anywhere else.
I thought I would share an SMS that I got on New Years Eve, typed exactly as I got it:
Before 2008 ends, let me Thank all the good people like U who made '2008' beautiful 4 me. i pray u b blssed with lovely years ahead! HAVE A WONDERFUL 2009.
You just aren't going to get that anywhere else.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Rangoli around Whisper Valley
Welcome 2009! Here are some of the nice rangoli around the neighborhood.
Ours is the one that says "WESH YOU HAPPY NEW YEAR". I think Monga made a new conjunction from WE WISH. Of course, she knows no English, so it's pretty cool she did this as well as she did.
Various people seemed to have stumbled into their homes over their rangoli, this the degradation.
Ours is the one that says "WESH YOU HAPPY NEW YEAR". I think Monga made a new conjunction from WE WISH. Of course, she knows no English, so it's pretty cool she did this as well as she did.
Various people seemed to have stumbled into their homes over their rangoli, this the degradation.
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