Keep The Presses

You can joke all you want about India's call centers, made possible through modern communication technology and the rise of the Internet. Everyone's connected, right? Not quite. Here in India, the power of the press is still in paper.

One of the reasons Sarah joined the Foreign Service was the decline of the newspaper industry, her previous field of employment. It's heartening to see that reading the daily paper is still a ritual in some countries.

The street is like a living room in India, plenty of people around all the time, doing things one would do in a typical living room back home.
If business is slow, crack open the paper for a minute. And if traffic is the same way, you might as well catch up on your reading.

Hello Door

It seems here in India, if there's a surface, it's a candidate for poster plastering or perhaps a nice paint job. Here are a couple of fine examples of stores going the extra mile (kilometer?) to make their security doors snazzy.