It's "winter" in India. Actually, the weather is delightful -- lows about 18°C (about 65°F) and highs in the low 30's (high 80's F). The humidity is low. It's just about the perfect.
I put up some battery-powered LED Christmas lights that I brought back with me after Thanksgiving. It's really difficult to realize that Christmas is only 10 days off. Not much Christmas in India! (Although it is an official holiday.)
Today's "Sight-of-the-Day" is a bullock cart resting along the highway. I didn't get a good picture of the yoke, but it seemed rather insubstantial -- not much more than a rope.
This morning was the "Run (or March) for Unity". I'd seen posters for the event, but didn't know much about it, since everything was in Gujarati. It's basically an attempt to have Narenda Modi's BJP become a pan-India party rather than a Gujarat-based party. (Parliamentary elections are coming up, and politics is HUGE in India.) The run/march was organized at over 1000 locations across India.
Anyway, we got caught up in the march as we were walking to our Hindi lesson. There were thousands of students walking/running/jogging -- all wearing their school uniforms or T-shirts identifying their school. And of course, this being India, it was accompanied by ear-splitting music from loudspeakers along the route.
The video below was taken after most of the crowd had passed, but you can get an idea of the loud music.
I put up some battery-powered LED Christmas lights that I brought back with me after Thanksgiving. It's really difficult to realize that Christmas is only 10 days off. Not much Christmas in India! (Although it is an official holiday.)
Today's "Sight-of-the-Day" is a bullock cart resting along the highway. I didn't get a good picture of the yoke, but it seemed rather insubstantial -- not much more than a rope.
This morning was the "Run (or March) for Unity". I'd seen posters for the event, but didn't know much about it, since everything was in Gujarati. It's basically an attempt to have Narenda Modi's BJP become a pan-India party rather than a Gujarat-based party. (Parliamentary elections are coming up, and politics is HUGE in India.) The run/march was organized at over 1000 locations across India.
Anyway, we got caught up in the march as we were walking to our Hindi lesson. There were thousands of students walking/running/jogging -- all wearing their school uniforms or T-shirts identifying their school. And of course, this being India, it was accompanied by ear-splitting music from loudspeakers along the route.
The video below was taken after most of the crowd had passed, but you can get an idea of the loud music.
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