Tuesday, December 9, 2008

INDIA STREETS... "TYPICALLY PICTORIALLY"

The streets of India can be described in many ways and with innumerable words. Just a few that come to mind: crowded, colourful , filthy, noisy, bustling , odoriferous and so on. Just use your imagination viewing the following pictures and I am sure you will come up with your own adjectives. We spent hours roaming the streets of many of the towns, villages or cities visited and never felt intimidated. There were occasions when a firm "NO THANK YOU" may have been required, but if so, became the norm of street browsing. Depending where, some merchants were aggressive wanting you to buy while just as many were content to let you browse and even answer questions on their wares. Not being a true shopper and bargainer, I contented myself more in the "I'm just here for the ride mode". The Streets are alive with a varied culture of people (Locals and tourists) and you will find that they are friendly and curious about you, as you are about their world. People are that way..No? PEOPLE...Who's more fun than people? The Indian populace while huge in numbers deserve humongous praise. The History, Geography and Social science student would have a hay day in India. The people work hard for very little pay, just to eke out a life. Mind you there are the very wealthy, but this mix is generally true around this planet. It was indeed humbling to walk the streets of India. It was indeed an inspiration to walk their streets. It was indeed an education to walk their streets. It was indeed simply mind boggling to walk their streets. Indeed It Made Me Feel ...."While this was their home....WOW how Great IS OURS?" PLEASE WALK THEIR STREETS........... BEAUTIFUL HUMANS.

3 comments:

SCOTTGUV said...

Thank you i will have some pics of Nepal coming soon

Lin said...

MERRY CHRISTMAS, SMT !!!
Hope you find some excitement in TO.

SCOTTGUV said...

Lin..lots of excitement in TO as well as SNOW!!