A profound observation, and window-cleaning

November 15, 2009

You know you’ve spent too long abroad, when….you sit in Chennai and find yourself trying to calculate what time it is in Bangalore!

I tried out

tree-climbing

…and a couple of days ago, I snapped this:

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It struck me forcibly that what was just a pastime for me, and a sport for others, was a livelihood for some people. (You can see that the man in the photograph above is using a sealant on the windows.)

This morning, when I opened

The Hindu

I found

this article by Liffy Thomas

Talk about high living….these people, like Microsoft, make their money from…Windows!

and we have a new proverb…people who live in glass houses, need their windows cleaned.