DAY 147

Another in traffic photo I'm afraid. I seem to be spending a lot of time in traffic at the moment. This is the back of an auto rickshaw. The words say 'Ram Ram'. This is a religious saying and sometimes a greeting, to do with Rama, one of the incarnations of Vishnu. It's quite common for autos to have the name of a Hindu god or two written on the back. However, it's also quite common for drivers to write their wife or children's names on the back too. The other day I saw one that said 'Palak' which means 'Eyelid'. So I asked my colleagues: why would an auto driver write 'Eyelid' on the back of his auto? Apparently it's quite a common female name, so was probably the name of his wife. Imagine being called Eyelid, I thought.