I was reading a friend’s shared items and then remembered having posted it as well. No, I was wrong. Checked my drafts and found this interesting mail-forward. I don’t know why I did not post it then. Probably I must have kept laughing.
Welcome to India. Namaste.
The answers are actual responses to the questions posted on a website by Foreigners planning a visit to India
Q: Does it ever get windy in India? I have never seen it rain on TV, how do the plants grow? (UK).
A: We import …

In India if you do not have time to enter a temple for a one-o-one chat with the God, then you can very well request His assistant or attendant by whispering your messages in his ears. You are rest assured, your messages will be conveyed to the God.
Yes, when there is a long queue to meet God and you are short on time, you can bribe His assistant !

If you find the waiting queue very discouraging….

How many times have we come across the warnings ? How many times have we been told to avoid doing certain things ? But no, we being bravehearts, do not want to listen to those ‘lectures’.
We all know crossing unmanned railway tracks or traveling on rooftop of any vehicle, especially trains, is dangerous but still some of us do it. Some out of fun, some out of compulsion but what was this guy doing ?

In this time of global warming and saving natural resources, someone in middle-east has invented this eco-bike. Please welcome it with a round of applause.

But let me warn you, you need a good practice to ride it.

Recently I came back to my base after more than a month. My trip was packed with activities with not a single half day to spare. Most of the tickets were booked either by air or train depending on the sector, availability and convenience. Because of the summer rush, some of the tickets were waitlisted but I was quite satisfied with the arrangements that were made for me.
On one such domestic sector (Chennai to Mumbai), I had confirmed air-ticket. I had to catch 7:50 PM flight and was looking forward …

Came across an interesting perception of travel here. Reproducing the lines below.
Station platforms on a cold evening
The smell of chai and bread omelette…
Cheap paperbacks at a bus stand
Conductors screaming at the top of their voices…
Rum and coke in shady bars with red and green light bulbs
Thick cigarette smoke hanging in the air…
Butter chicken and naan at the highway dhaba
Truckers’ tales, Country Liquor on a charpoy…
Side lower berth during monsoon days
Pearls of water dripping from the window bars…
Mountain air burning my nostrils
The sun rising over the snowy peaks…
* chai = tea
dhaba …

If you are taking a road trip in India, Google Maps has made it easy for you. You can now find detailed driving directions between any two places of India.
I tried to get a road map from Mumbai to Aurangabad. It not only gave me a complete route but exact direction as where to turn. One shortcoming though… It gives you the shortest path available without checking main road or sub-lanes.

You can click on the map for a better view.
But then the map breaks the whole route into smaller routes …