A Fine Balance
Coconut stand on NH 219 near the Karnataka-Andhra Pradesh border.
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Emergency Telephone
A surreal sight in the middle of rural Andhra Pradesh. The board above the Emergency Phone has the phone numbers for Police, Fire, Hospital and, in case you needed it, the phone number for Hewlett-Packard. All it's missing is the handset.
Cricket on Outer Ring Road
The Outer Ring Road in Bangalore is probably not as well known for cricket as the Eden Gardens, Lords or the Sydney Cricket Ground, but last Sunday I was watching a game of cricket on a Sunday morning in one of the few patches of land left on the Outer Ring Road in Bangalore. The kids are surrounded by multi story buildings under construction, land-moving equipment and granite slabs, but nothing beats the joy of playing cricket in the morning. The lay of the land: the pitch looks bouncy and it might aid bowlers in the morning. The batsman watches the ball go over the slip cordon Once in a while the ball gets lost amidst the concrete slabs behind the wickets and the wicketkeeper has to point the location out to the fielder at first slip. An intensive search proceeds. Retrieval efforts fail and the wicket keeper himself proceeds to find the ball. When a new batsman comes, the bails are set properly and the game proceeds. I expect the next time I'm back here, the construction equipmen...
Paper Plane over New York
The delightful flight of a paper airplane over the streets of New York. You find yourself wishing that the flight never ends and also wondering where it will end.
Number Plates from California
I often walk/drive around with a cellphone-camera and have been taking photos of number plates that piqued my interest. My on-going photo collection is available on Picasweb. Some of these have been taken through the windshield of my car while waiting at a traffic light - yes I'm one of those multitasking people your driving instructor warned you about ;-). My favorite one is a Hummer's number plate that claims 20 MPG.