Sea side views!
Onlooking guard, perching boat, praying Jesus, rocky shores.. a relaxed day at the beach with friends!
Posts Tagged 2008
The red-yellow bus!
Kerala transport bus aka KSRTC bus gave a hit on my scooter the other day just to remind me of their pictures I had taken earlier! Yes, the hit also triggered me to jot some of my love-hate relation with KSRTC not in any particular order. I’m sure the story is not just mine but many of yours!
- When I fiercely argued with the bus driver for hitting my scooter from behind at the signal .
- How can I miss the half a kilometer run backward to Alleppy bus station when the bus conductor forgot to pick my uncle.
- The generous conductor who stopped the bus for me to vomit :)
- How can I foget the innumerable fights to get those reserved seats for women.
- How beautiful are those trips in leaking buses with open umbrellas during monsoon!
- I will never forget the balance money KSRTC conductors are yet to return for my tickets ;)
I wouldn’t want to elaborate more stories at a time when poor KSRTC is weeping for a lost minister between election fights!
The ginger warehouse
At the heart of spice trade in Cochin, there runs an exclusive Ginger export house run by the Gujarathi merchants. A historical piece of building that reminds us of a prosperous era in trade! Local women workers clean, strain and dry ginger at the warehouse for a daily wage of 60 to 75 rupees – bare enough to meet the dead ends?
Ginger has great medicinal value yet its smell and dust suffocate any normal visitor after 5 minutes.
Automatic Langar!
Langar is the most amazing thing I have experienced in Punjab. The free food provided by the gurudwaras fed me the entire week spent in Punjab. So Punjab must be hunger free?!
The pictures are from the automatic Langar kitchen of the golden temple at Amritsar. The huge automatic Roti making machine which makes thousands of Rotis for the continously operating community dining hall.