ABC Wednesday -- I is for...

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Continuing the travel theme that I have used for most of this ABC round,

I is for India.

Just as at home I am somewhat obsessed with mountains and valleys, here I give you mountain and valley views in Tamilnadu, in the south of India.

Perhaps the most famous individual in modern Indian history, Mahatma Gandhi's statue stands outside a museum of his life in Chennai.

With the current popularity of Slumdog Millionaire, everyone knows a little about India and Bollywood. When we were visiting the Church of St. Thomas in Chennai, a Bollywood movie was being filmed int he area, with some scenes taking place in the church itself. Seated center in the light shirt was the star, and next to him a starstruck Brother Lawrence.
A bit more day to day was the school. This class had moved into the courtyard for the day.

There is a wide variety of traffic in India. Bullock carts such as this one, piled high with goods, share the road with bicycles, motorbikes (both often carrying either a whole family or a tradesman's wares) three wheel auto-rickshaws, cars, buses, and lorries of all sorts.

In small towns a shop might carry everything from saris to cooking pots, water jugs to foot lockers.

Perhaps some other letters will inspire me to dig once again into my India files.