Going through the thousands of photographs we collect on our trips to India and deciding which ones to use in brochures or on the web is one of the pleasures of the job. We do it quite often! As well as pictures of hotels, places of interest, eye-catching events and the ones you can't resist taking there are others which go almost unnoticed in the excitement of looking at them all on returning home until some time later you realise that they encapsulate an aspect of the journey which has been part of the wallpaper until then. We will try to share these with you now and again.
This picture is one I hadn't looked at for some time, but it fascinates me now as typical of the way in which modern India works. The row of office services in Mysore contains all you need for business communication, copiers, faxes, STD telephones and workers typing on antique machines. These people would once have been writing by hand for illiterate passers by, and in some places you can still see the scribes taking down letters for illiterate villagers in town for the market.
As mobile phones become more and more common I wonder what will become of the men with their huge typewriters and myriad of busy staff.
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