Chhavi Noticed This!

thirst

chhavi — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:35:21 +0000

The followup image has a human being (my mother) cupping her hands to offer the bull a better chance at getting more water. I’m not posting that, but there are some other tourists who have pictures of her as well

sitting pretty

chhavi — Mon, 14 May 2012 05:30:49 +0000

This was Delhi. Two sadhus. Two monkeys. I asked if I could take a photo. The man in the photo said “Kyu nahin?” (Why not?) The sadhu behind him called out for money, shouting, “Paisa to de do!” I ignored him. As did the monkeys.

Marie

chhavi — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:22:56 +0000

You know you’re eating in a high class joint when Marie from the Aristocats is the art up on walls As I ate, I had “Scales and Arpeggios” in my head the whole time

crrunchy

chhavi — Wed, 09 May 2012 05:31:24 +0000

Crrunchy AND frrunchy, too!? What do you say this tagline was thought up by a Punjabi? (probably the “chachaji” for whom the brand is named).

psychic

chhavi — Mon, 07 May 2012 05:30:59 +0000

Also from Rishikesh, this machine purports to read your mind, calibrate your thoughts (see the odometers?) and then broadcast your past, present and future through the headphones I loved it. For 20 bucks, I was told that the things I was worried about would resolve themselves, my health would improve and I’d become rich. Paisa wasooli

don’t!

chhavi — Sat, 05 May 2012 06:56:24 +0000

so if you can read Hindi, I’ll assume your first impulse was to take your tea and snacks down to the Ganga’s edge, along with your trusty cake of Medimix soap, and then really laugh loudly and kick up a huge ruckus. Even if we weren’t already laughing out loud, everyone who read this sign out loud was laughing by the time they finished Big Brother is Watching Mother Ganga!

shelter

chhavi — Thu, 03 May 2012 04:50:44 +0000

Rourkee station, a sudden storm of freezing cold rain. The mendicants and homeless huddle. And this magnificent Brahma bull with them.

stereotypes

chhavi — Tue, 01 May 2012 09:50:08 +0000

We reached Haridwar and got to the jetty for crossing the Ganges by boat and clapped eyes on this sadhu, smoking a chillum as he surveyed Ganga Maiya. What was he thinking?

crochet

chhavi — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:34:10 +0000

Finally, inspiration for what to do with the only shape and size of anything I can kinda crochet. I found this in a very badly named children’s furnishing store (“SotoMoto.” Yes, that tells me everything about what you retail. Not.) in Delhi’s Hauz Khas village. I thought the lamps were delightful and inspirational. Yay! Finally something I can make that is useful (as opposed to scarves, which are ridiculously impractical for the climate of Mumbai).