Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label India. Show all posts

14 January 2010

Things that Crack Me Up in India

Looking through my photos of the last couple of months in India, here are some things that made me laugh.

1. The Village Vampire-
Village Vampire 1
I've been to a lot of rural villages before, but this is the first time I've seen seen someone in a costume. I wonder if he's the equivalent of a clown at a circus? Must be a human thing that cuts across cultures where adults wear makeup and scare little kids.
Village Vampire 2

2. Street Animals-
Always a novelty to see an elephant go strolling down the street with all the regular traffic (much better than the naked guy I saw a few weeks ago).
Elephant Traffic
Dogs caught sleeping on top of fruit-
Caught in the Act
Feeding time-
Feeding Time

3. Coats on Animals
Keeping the Goat Warm
Really? Is it really that cold in New Delhi to put fleece on an animal that already has fur? Someone told me a crazy German lady was running around and doing this. I'm all for doing something for animals, but considering there are plenty of cold people on the streets too...
A Second Coat? Really?

4. Bar Decor
I almost put a 10Rs note on the stage next to the mannequin on the stripper pole...
Interesting Decor 2
Interesting Decor 1

5. Street massage specialists-
I'm positive they're certified in swedish, shiatsu and spades. Really.
Body Massage Specialists?
Massage Anyone?

6. Haircuts in India-
For some reason or another I found out (the hard way) that the quality of my haircut goes down when the cost goes up. Not sure why that is.

Interesting Haircut

So this actually wasn't too funny after I first got it cut (maybe now after it grew out). As my friend put it "Wow! I didn't know a haircut in India can change your ethnicity!!!"



I actually prefer the street barbers, they know how to cut hair. And as an added bonus, you get a scalp massage!
Scalp circulation

28 May 2008

Hello (again) from India

Ah yes, it's almost like I never left. The musical sounds of autorickshaws honking still fills the air.

Photos to come shortly...
India's Flavor Flav

29 January 2007

Calcutta/Kolcata redux

More scenes from Calcutta (previous posts 1, 2), this time shot from the medium format camera.

Nope, not terrorist training for young kids, but a street game shooting balloons with a pellet gun.
Carnival game

As large of a city that Kolcata is, it's one place that I refused to take rickshaws around. I don't know of any other places in the world that still have humans pulling around other people, but I just wasn't comfortable with it.
Rickshaw pulling
Rickshaw-wallah

Ice cream, delivered fresh from the streets of Calcutta
Ice cream
Taxi and coke