Here is the jet I fly parked at Rourkela airport… I am probably that white smudge walking onto the ramp!
This Diwali, like last year we went to Dip the airport drivers house for dinner and fireworks. We got to see a pandal this year, which was interesting….the pandal building itself to me was scary, its a fire hazard as its made out of bamboo poles. polystyrene and then what feels like womens stocking material which is painted…
The puja pandal
The idol
Skyrocket the Indian way... lighting it
Skyrocket away... hand intact still
Dips daughter
Sparklers, the all time simple fireworks
Like a war zone is what it felt like!
The alley way leading to their house
On the cricket pitch beside their place about to let off the crackers
Dip and his kids out the front of their house
Rishis, Dips wife and their son
Not fireworks but thousands of bugs in the spotlights in front of the puja pandal
Diwali dinner night is tonight at the apartment complex…. my god its loud and noisy. I would have to yell if I was talking to someone outside on the balcony 11 floors up!
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Inside the forex shop
This is how you get forex from the black market guys in india. Down this laneway …you find some holes in the walls. These holes …literally holes are the money guys… no receipts no questions asked and you get your cash. This is near kolkata airport,s international terminal…without local help I wouldn’t have found it.
Sitting at lunch today in the non vegetarian restaurant of the Sheathes hotel in Raigarh we had the lovely experience of a table full of flies. It turned out our table like the rest of the tables had last had the table linens changed in 2005 I think… take a look for yourself.
Ever sat in the arrival area of a indian airport… probably not as you can’t go in and loiter around the bag claim belts like in the rest of the world.
Strange place …lots of lost people milling around grabbing bags… seems indians have a problem remembering their bags… fights are common and it always turns out the person has grabbed a black pull along when in fact he has checked a brown cardboard box. …
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