No Euphemisms in India

So now that Melanie is doing the hard work of maintaining the major "update" items on the the blog, I can get back to doing what I do best... what is it that I do best, exactly? The easy work of course... so here's an interesting observation about India.

I saw the side of a bus this morning that read something like - "Institute for the Advancement of Persons with Multiple Disabilities". Makes it very clear what the bus is for, but I was thinking that in the US, it wouldn't say that. It would say something more like "La Barea", or "The Casa House", really just something that sounded nice, but was meaningless, and then you'd have to look into it to know what it really did, and who it benefitted, etc... It go me to thinking about other such signs Mel and I have seen. Some off the top of my head are... "Home for Aged, Destitute Women", and the "Center for the Study of Ultrafast Processes", They sound a bit to me like a Monty Python bit, but they are real. Sometime soon, we will go out sign hunting with the camera... I think you'll get quite a treat.

P.S. We are "officially" on our way to Hong Kong and Beijing for two weeks in March. I booked the tickets last night.