The hotel we stayed at in Kochi had life-size models of elephants sitting all round a central building in their front lawn…and this angle to one of them was too good to miss….

How do you think Erode Textiles (Erode is a town in Tamil Nadu) would label the very nice textiles/towels that they make?

The quality of the light during the monsoons is really magical..and more so when it is raining at dusk.

I would like to wish every one of my MaLayAlam friends a happy and prosperous ONam festival.

At the Taj Malabar Hotel in Kochi (earlier Cochin) in Kerala, KM and I didn’t feel like using the lift all the time and so took the service stairs to go down, but were met with this rather disturbing (well, at least thought-provoking) sign before we went out into the lobby: