Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Lajpat Nagar

This market in New Delhi is the place to go when buying home appliances/electronics and also t-shirts for some reason (not really sure what they have in common). Lakshmi and I, in fact, have been to this one at least 6 times in the first 3 weeks that I've been here... and for those of you who are wondering why 6 TIMES, well you obviously don't know Lakshmi :)

A zoo, is really the best way to describe it. There are people, cars, motorcycles.... everywhere. And just to make the whole experience even more pleasant it was 46 degrees that day. It's so packed that not even the cows feel like wondering thru this part of town (BTW the Hindi translation for cow is actually the word "gaay").

This particular outing was quite successful. We bought an electric kettle, a toaster, and a microwave... and, in this second picture Lakshmi just finished buying me some Hindi books.

There was a third picture that I wanted to post, but unfortunately it came out blurred. In it, Lakshmi was Purell'ing herself because just a moment sooner a fat, sweaty, Indian man had bumped into her and transferred a healthy amount of sweat onto her arm. For some reason she didn't find it as amusing as I did.

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