Thursday, April 27, 2006

Exhaustion and Pics from Mumbai

It hit me today how insane our schedule has been, each of our four days thus far have not ended until between midnight and 3am, and throughout those days the only down time we've had has been during the flights. On top of this, jet lag and changing time zones has limited me to no more than four hours sleep on any night so far. Tomorrow will be a 16 hour day beginning at 5am - we are taking the train to Pune and apparently about to experience traffic like never before.

So, not much to say tonight, one because I'm exhaused, but two because I think these pics speak for themselves. Just one quick stat to consider as you look at these images from my day:
Mumbai is a city of 17M, 20% of which are homeless.

These are homes. They are everywhere.

Your local tailor in his shop.
He is not working out here, he is using the bike to power something to sharpen his tools.

Kids are in the streets approaching cars and begging everywhere. This little one wanted to sell us a newspaper for 50 rupees, or 10c.

Motorized rickshaws are ubiquitous, but what I liked about this pic was juxaposition of that and the Razr ad.
This is my favorite pic of the day, a barber shop. People are hanging out like this in their tiny little shops everywhere you turn.

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