Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Great minds… and all that

“We took this on Pune station before leaving”, thus starts the story. Each photo carries with it a 5 minute long, crawling commentary. Not running commentary, mind you.

In short, the tourists bore you by showing you their photos and souvenirs. The album looks like just one single photo repeated over and over again. With different description.

“Check this out. We had trekked near Joshimath.”

The photo showed some ten people. Any newspaper could have carried that photo with caption, “Drug runners caught in police action”. Or possibly, as a group photo of some local village politicians with Party’s district president.

This description from the aptly named, “मी आणि माझा शत्रुपक्ष” (Me and My Enemies) (collection: Hasavnuk) makes me think Pu La Deshpande would have empathised with Stephen Fry in here:

 

Well, except at the end.

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