Article number 13 seems to be a much more light hearted one with a lot of attention being bestowed upon Geetha aunty!! She certainly is gifted when it comes to art and craft and no wonder the extreme fondness for history!!
Workation is a new word and is something worth experimenting in the near future!
Adar Poonawala who runs the serum institute of India has said that the government must set aside 80k crores if it indeed wants to administer the vaccine to its 1.3 billion citizens. With a completely diminished economy this seems to be a very far fetched thought!
Your posts are always so well researched and presented with your characteristic precision. Thanks Pras.
Your friend Chandy presented a humorous but accurate picture of Indian roads 6 years ago and the credit goes to us Indians that we have managed to preserve our roads in the same conditions so well till date. And your jokes are always funny. We look forward for them.
In keeping with the theme of Filter Coffee No 13 and on the subject of driving on Indian roads, let me quote two anecdotes
Once I had someone from Amsterdam as a guest and I took him for a drive around Bangalore donning the role of tourist guide. Observing the traffic on the road, in a confused tone he asked me, “In India, who gets precedence- traffic from the left or right”. This guide had no answer to that one. That also reminds me of a TV reporter once saying “In Bangalore one doesn’t ride on the right or left of the road- one drives on whatever is left of the road.” That should explain the two wheelers often seen on footpaths when nothing is left on the road to drive on.
Recently I remember reading a message on driving on Indian roads. It said “Driving on Indian roads is like war. In war one doesn’t tell others on what one intend to do next, so one doesn’t use the turn indicator on Indian roads”. Prasanna, you did mention about Indian trucks driving without signals. Yes driving on Indian roads is often like war- the might is right principle holds sway. But I for one feel that probably years of conditioning makes many older driver (who once drove those, now extinct, cars in India) feel that the indicators won’t work anyway and don’t touch them as they used to then in their heydays.
Article number 13 seems to be a much more light hearted one with a lot of attention being bestowed upon Geetha aunty!! She certainly is gifted when it comes to art and craft and no wonder the extreme fondness for history!!
Workation is a new word and is something worth experimenting in the near future!
Adar Poonawala who runs the serum institute of India has said that the government must set aside 80k crores if it indeed wants to administer the vaccine to its 1.3 billion citizens. With a completely diminished economy this seems to be a very far fetched thought!
Your posts are always so well researched and presented with your characteristic precision. Thanks Pras.
Your friend Chandy presented a humorous but accurate picture of Indian roads 6 years ago and the credit goes to us Indians that we have managed to preserve our roads in the same conditions so well till date. And your jokes are always funny. We look forward for them.
I am very grateful for the compliments. I hope to continue to live up to your expectation.
Very well presented
Very grateful!
Missing travel plan days sir
Impressed with the concept of workations 👌
You too should take a workation my friend:)
Yes boss
In keeping with the theme of Filter Coffee No 13 and on the subject of driving on Indian roads, let me quote two anecdotes
Once I had someone from Amsterdam as a guest and I took him for a drive around Bangalore donning the role of tourist guide. Observing the traffic on the road, in a confused tone he asked me, “In India, who gets precedence- traffic from the left or right”. This guide had no answer to that one. That also reminds me of a TV reporter once saying “In Bangalore one doesn’t ride on the right or left of the road- one drives on whatever is left of the road.” That should explain the two wheelers often seen on footpaths when nothing is left on the road to drive on.
Recently I remember reading a message on driving on Indian roads. It said “Driving on Indian roads is like war. In war one doesn’t tell others on what one intend to do next, so one doesn’t use the turn indicator on Indian roads”. Prasanna, you did mention about Indian trucks driving without signals. Yes driving on Indian roads is often like war- the might is right principle holds sway. But I for one feel that probably years of conditioning makes many older driver (who once drove those, now extinct, cars in India) feel that the indicators won’t work anyway and don’t touch them as they used to then in their heydays.
Thank you Shahji for the unfailing regularity of your comments. Much valued.