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Men and Machines - Part II
First post in almost 3 months, and I get annoyed with blogger.com immediately - again, it will not show the pictures in any kind of full screen mode for no obvious reason. Anyway, here are some taxi drivers and rickshawwallahs whom I met in Juhu today...
Sunday, 2 November 2008
GQ
I am not an expert for brand building, certainly not one of this fine publication's readers, perhaps not even part of its target group. Nevertheless, I could not help the feeling that there may be some kind of discrepancy between the desired brand image and the reality of promoting it on the ground when I saw this a few weeks ago in South Bombay. Anyway, Gentlemen's Quarterly is here. 
There is an India outside Bombay...
and it is nicer, more quiet, less polluted and, all in all, less insane.
This blog has not died a silent death, I am just reluctant to go on photo safaris in the intense heat of the last weeks. Last weekend, however, we left Bombay by car, had a look at Ajanta & Ellora Caves, and popped into Nasik on our way back.
Dr. Ambedkar in a small town in Maharashtra:
Saturday, 6 September 2008
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
Dangers and Safety Nets
Again, no pictures, sorry.
As per the Times of India count of Monsoon related deaths in Mumbai (154 this rainy season and counting), this fine city saw 12 dengue victims and 46 malaria cases admitted to hospitals within 24 hours. That in itself is nothing unusual. Dengue, Malaria and Chikungunya are simply not funny; all three are around, and all three are transmitted by mosquitos.
This, together with the observation that there were more and more mosquitos in my place and that I already had a fair number of bites, was reason enough for me to venture out and try to procure a net to put over my bed. Strangely enough, I drew a complete blank. Not a single shop I visited was able to sell me a mosquito net, even more, all these shopowners did not really understand my point. Why would anybody want to have one? Firangi whimp...
I can only speculate why Bombay's consumers simply can't be bothered. It may be what I consider a rather distorted perception of risks to one's life and limb in general, or it may be that these people are simply to preoccupied with, well, perhaps Dhat Syndrome (you will have to check this out!).
Eventually, it was the internet that saved my life: www.kwalitynets.com (run by an extremely helpful Mr. Prakash Kajaria) tailored me an excellent box-shaped net within 48 hours and delivered it to my office for a total of Rs. 1,600/-.
I can only hope that my fellow lost souls, anxiously roaming the streets of Bombay and the pages of the www in desperate attempts to get some mesh betwen their mortal coils and the vectors of death, find this link and Prakash - he deserves it.
As per the Times of India count of Monsoon related deaths in Mumbai (154 this rainy season and counting), this fine city saw 12 dengue victims and 46 malaria cases admitted to hospitals within 24 hours. That in itself is nothing unusual. Dengue, Malaria and Chikungunya are simply not funny; all three are around, and all three are transmitted by mosquitos.
This, together with the observation that there were more and more mosquitos in my place and that I already had a fair number of bites, was reason enough for me to venture out and try to procure a net to put over my bed. Strangely enough, I drew a complete blank. Not a single shop I visited was able to sell me a mosquito net, even more, all these shopowners did not really understand my point. Why would anybody want to have one? Firangi whimp...
I can only speculate why Bombay's consumers simply can't be bothered. It may be what I consider a rather distorted perception of risks to one's life and limb in general, or it may be that these people are simply to preoccupied with, well, perhaps Dhat Syndrome (you will have to check this out!).
Eventually, it was the internet that saved my life: www.kwalitynets.com (run by an extremely helpful Mr. Prakash Kajaria) tailored me an excellent box-shaped net within 48 hours and delivered it to my office for a total of Rs. 1,600/-.
I can only hope that my fellow lost souls, anxiously roaming the streets of Bombay and the pages of the www in desperate attempts to get some mesh betwen their mortal coils and the vectors of death, find this link and Prakash - he deserves it.
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