Monday, March 31, 2008

Tidbittwo

Here are a few more things I found along the way:
There are no mops here, people use a rag and a bucket and squat down.
There are no brooms here, people use these short bound bundles of straw and lean over to brush the ground.
The purpose of eating with your hands is so that you taste the food and not the metal utensil.
While the dot on a person's forehead has become fashionable, it has its roots in the religious belief that we all have a 3rd eye between our existing two.
Throwing garbage on the street or ground is the norm. Needless to say, it's everywhere.
India is the world's largest democracy.
India's TV news consists of not only Indian World News channels in Hindi and English, but the BBC and Al Jazeera. (Al Jazeera is an Arabic News and Current Affairs news magazine and channel).
The reporters on Al Jazeera are all white North Americans or Europeans and the coverage offers far less biased news coverage, as does BBC, than any of the US news channels could hope for.
For travel, add at least an hour to any body's time estimates.
There is no answer that will satisfy an Indian's question to why you are not married yet.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Safe travels back to the States, Jeff. Thanks for bringing us along on your Indian adventures. See you soon, oh bearded one!
-L.

Anonymous said...

Why aren't you married yet...?