Brown Motion

O Lord Ganesh - I pray to thee. That is the literal translation of the title.  Lord Ganesh being the highly acclaimed and universally (for people from all over India) known of the deities being worshipped.  Part elephant and part man he represents a good start.  As in people believe in prayers to Ganesh before beginning a new venture, a journey or a relationship at times. All that said it also follows that in India which largely thrives on god worship as one of its largest industries, there are street festivals and celebrations to praise the Lord's doings or 'to be' doings.  As in the blessings that all and sundry seek to get them going to do the doing, which oft times happens to be a lot of lazing.  May be that is my perspective but then again I am not doing any of that praying so who knows. Now Ganesh prayer and special celebrations abound in the Fall when the Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated with much fanfare.  It was originally crafted in the late ...

America's fascination with shopping is evident in their large malls or warehouse clubs that can double up as bomb shelters in case there is an all out war with another nation or a nuclear fallout.  There is tons of dried food, fresh food, gluten free food, beverages and toilet paper to take care of a small country. But another comparative data point when looking at how this engine works vis a vis another country where people go to the Souk, Bazaar, Mandai et al is the amount of real estate devoted to parking their automobiles - a short walk away from the center of all things bling or smart or XXL. These parking lots are large open to sky, paved tracts of real estate in sometimes the most expensive of neighborhoods - if all else fails they rise towards the sky competing with other structures which include the shopping space, air conditioned for plastic swipe excess. Thusly the lots have well marked zones for storing your chariots - at times resembling machines ...