I'm thinking they must mean memorial sculptures? Or maybe Mr. Manoj is just multi-talented. :)
Other things I saw on the way to/from work today:
- People sleeping on the sidewalk...so many people, so many sidewalks, it's staggering
- Children being bathed in puddles on the side of the road
- A commuter train packed to the brim with passengers hanging out of the doors
- People weaving baskets, huge baskets that were round and about two and a half feet in diameter
- A goods carrier truck (they are huge and say "Goods Carrier" on the top front and are generally decoratively painted) stopped in the road, with a motorcycle sitting on its side next to it and the driver of the motorcycle yelling in at the driver
- A lot of beautiful roadside shrines that I want to peek further into
One small anecdote for the day is regarding a discussion about pets -- Abu commented that I must have seen a lot of stray dogs, and I said I had, and that I had only seen one person walking a pet dog. I asked if pets were common, and he said yes. Nitesh recounted that his friend had visited Australia and found it remarkable that when people went on trips to visit family, they would take their pets somewhere to stay -- I hadn't thought of boarding pets as odd, of course, but I guess an animal hotel is a humorous idea...especially if you picture all the dogs with mint biscuits on their pillows when they arrive. :)
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