Day: August 16, 2004

Colours of India

While at Yeshvantpur market yesterday, Vasu, one of the Bangalore shutterbuggers, commented that there is no place as colourful as India. Just take a walk through a busy Indian market and there’s proof all around you. Women in colourful sarees. Onions. Garlic. Chillies. Ginger. Cauliflowers. Brinjals. Capsicum. Banana carts. Peanuts. Piles of multi-coloured flowers – red and white roses, yellow marigolds… Buckets, mugs and assorted paraphernelia – they probably come in every colour except black! Chicken. Mutton. Beef. Fish. Prawns. Silver utensils of every shape. Spoons. Handles. Ladles. Sponges. Kitchen knick knacks. Piles of gulal in red, blue, yellow, orange… Chips made from everything you can imagine (not just potatoes!) Dhania. Curry patta. Every green saag you can imagine. Watermelons. Papayas. Kids with bright smiles. And the tri-colour flag (in all sizes) displayed everywhere. On top of buildings, cycles, rickshaws, trucks, motorbikes, cars. Even the vegetable and fruit vendor carts had little flags flying merrily in the wind. There were six of us who ventured out in the morning with our cameras – Vasu, Lavannya, …