I’ve seen some roadside signs recently whose dicta seemed worth sharing.
Beside mountain road in Kumaon Region, Uttarakhand, on the way to Pancheswar:
“BE MR LATE BETTER THEN LATE MR”
On Netaji Subhash Marg, across from the Red Fort, Delhi:
“HEAD IS MORE IMPORTANT THEN HAIRSTYLE
STREP YOUR HELMET”
At intersection of Royapettah High Road and Lloyd’s Road, Chennai:
“Words can kill
No [...]
Here are newspaper clippings from the last couple months. They come from the pages of The Times of India and The Hindu, the two papers our house receives daily.
Some headlines, in their bid for reader attention, can get dramatic:
Those bursts need to chill. Other headlines (and their articles) seem to advance a clear agenda, sometimes fairly [...]
For the last week I’ve been trying to learn as much about bhangra, the much-acclaimed and highly-globalized Punjabi folk music, as possible. This blog post is sort of from-the-hip, as I haven’t delved deeply enough to verify some of my preliminary conclusions, but here’s the sense I’m getting:
Though originally the province of the Sikh community, bhangra [...]
Tomorrow, Saturday, April 18th, I’m heading up to Delhi to rendezvous with the Himalayan Outback and do another two-week stint with them in pursuit of that most contrarian fish, the ‘Himalayan Golden Mahseer’. To help tide you over-eager reader-writers over, here is a post. Airtel continues to send me SMSes that I can’t really make sense [...]
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When the bus stops I disembark and promptly hunt down some chai. It’s late evening, and the air is chilly, even (especially?) after seven hours spent in the back of a trundling, sweaty bus. Before too long I am met by the 4×4 that will shuttle me through Jim Corbett National [...]
I’ve got another short piece from my time in the north, which I’m also hoping for some help with. Fly fishing article fodder, same story, etc. This one also seeks to blend interior monologue with disembodied narrative. I think italics are the best way I’ve found to try to accomplish this, but I need [...]
These are some notes from an experience I had while spending two weeks in the north at a new fly fishing lodge. A little more information about my time up there can be found on Leland’s ‘Official’ Blog. I’m looking for feedback on this piece, because I might want to put something similar into an [...]
In India text messaging is called ‘SMS’. Cell phones are called ‘mobiles’ (weird I know!), which rhymes with piles, not pulls. Mobile is just a noun but SMS is a noun and a verb.
Airtel, my provider, SMSes my mobile roughly thrice daily so I can keep up on the latest great offers they are happy [...]
One of the most impressive things about India is the way people get around. The number of vehicles (and number of types of vehicles) competing to lurch, sprint, or sputter ahead of the others is something that any Westerner will immediately notice and become fascinated by. What follows is a working paragraph for an article [...]