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Unscripted India (part 2)

Things you see as you travel can be monotonous or unique to a locale or geography.  Alaska is vast and monotonous with not much happening.

Parts of India on the other hand are a 24x7 comedy or tragedy depending on your perspective.

  • People live in trash - they create it and throw it right where they eat, work, sleep or live.  Reader's Digest could do another series titled - Life's like Trash (and metaphorically I found some people treat their lives so).  So much so that they do not have another point of view - it is second nature to dispose whatever garbage they have in their hand to earth right there.  That it is of no use and is in their hand or mouth or attached to their being is reason to dump it instantly or spit gobs.  Lack of latrines instigates some other behaviors noted earlier.
  • Power outage - while rampant in certain parts and not so in others is a non-major event.  No one is that dependent on any particular service that an outage would cause irreparable harm.  That is why no one guarantees anything in India.  You might get it or you might not.
  • People have installed inverters or generators which may or may not work.  At a lodging in northern Konkan the dude that ran the establishment had not fully familiarized himself with  the operation of the largish generator in his front yard.  When power went out he went and stared at it after much urging to amend the hot and humid room situation.
  • Speed hump is your friend - Your speed on any given road is a function of potholes to stray animals multiplied by errant wrong way traffic /ridership.  The same road will contain a series of Speed Bumps where you can actually accelerate since at times they are the only smooth macadam you will find.
  • Cell phone while in each and sundry's pocket are highly unreliable when it comes to a working signal or compatibility with other carriers.
  • Only country on the planet where trucks and rickshaws urge their surrounding drivers to Please Honk.  Blow Horn or Horn - Ok - Please (this may or may not involve mother's blessings - Aicha Ashirwad being the slogan).

  • Bedouins in the burbs - most locals that ride 2-wheeled vehicles now wear a desert nomad like cover on their face to avoid breathing particles that may kill them in a week.

  • Hardware like scooters or cars or buses are operated at 400% capacity on a regular basis - no country can show results like this.



 

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  1. RajendraJuly 28, 2015 at 2:28 AM

    we are productive but where is it where it counts? arguable.

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