On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:56:35 -0000 "Bob W" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > http://picasaweb.google.co.in/pdml.live/Peso#5313294848338169218 > very atmospheric, but I would prefer a more close-up view of the > people working. thanks Bob. actually we were walking towards them when it started raining, rather heavily and i only had the 16-45. we had to scoot fast. ;-) > When I was in India a few years ago I crossed that river by train, > close to the mouth of the river. It was around breakfast time and as > the train crossed the river and I was about to start eating I looked > out and saw a purple, bloated human corpse floating beneath the > bridge. i hope you finished your breakfast without batting an eyelid. :-) it's a rather holy river, next only to the ganga for south indians but i don't think too many cremations take place now, unlike kasi/benares/varanasi (even that is only hearsay because i've never been there personally so don't really know how it is). because the confluence has religious significance, a lot of rituals are still performed there though there wasn't much happening during our visit. it's about 350-odd km from chennai along the coast and me and a friend of mine had gone there on our motorcycles on a weekend. thanks for looking. regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
