Noise, pollution, people, heat., movement, beautiful trees, bright saris, flashing smiles, bullocks with painted horns and bells, pathetically thin horses pulling carts, handcarts groaning with fruit, roasting peanuts, dosas, chapattis, idlis, puris, spices, chillis, people lying drunk on the pavement, temples, incense, wandering cows eating plastic bags, rubbish dumped everywhere, men urinating, sparkling stars, deformed limbs, smiling children, pristine uniforms, dust, the affluent side by side with the very poor, contacts, promises, things that never happen, wonderful things that do happen, heaving buses, shops that sell everything, roads where every shop sells the same thing, being able to get anything somewhere, stray dogs, the ironing man/woman with coal-heated irons, the personal service, the deals, the scams, the shake of the head, stainless steel dishes, the man with his false leg laid beside him on the pavement, the devotion at the temples, the bamboo scaffolding, women carrying on their heads granite blocks that take 4 men to lift, the smart coffee bars and shops, construction, the men stopping at your gate with carts of grapes, tomatoes, onions or garlic, shouting their wares, the hooting of trains, a welcome breeze, the Rs50 (63pence) per night room v. the $500 room, people living on the street, a horse with a broken leg left on a flyover, hens tied to the back of motor bikes, sugar cane machines on street corners to extract juice, piles of coconuts freshly opened to quench your thirst, traffic rules, traffic police, one-way systems, flowers, sitting in an auto rickshaw inches from lorry wheels and belching exhausts, rangoli, chalk decorations outside the door of houses indicating that the threshold has been cleaned, man walking down road with sacks on the stumps where his feet used to be, children in school asking �what�s your name�, saying �you are bootiful� and that our skin is �like butter�, and that things are �soopa�, bicycles carrying coconuts, straw, wood, metal strips and pipes, cows sitting in the road, children performing somersaults in traffic for money, boys selling cotton buds, dusters and matches at traffic lights, the boy who comes to wash the family van at 6.30 every morning, scrubbing clothes with a rock, jewellery and gold, girls with plaited hair, chai (tea) at every opportunity, yoga, mendi (henna skin decoration), rice, cotton clothes, flip-flops, socks with a separate big toe, coconut fibre floor brushes, STD/ISD phone booths, Xerox shops, Internet shops, specialist doctors, squat toilets, mosquitoes, washing, washing, more washing, cooking , more cooking, talking, prayers, spitting, kindness, hospitality, honking squawking horns, gangs of workmen, men lying asleep at the busy roadside, women and children turning up to complete a building job in one day, big beetles, speed breakers, digital countdown displays to traffic lights changing, people sitting at the roadside selling tiny lemons laid out on a sack, thousands of darting, spluttering, smoking, yellow-topped auto-rickshaws, painted cows, vibrant coloured blossoms, churches, army, airforce, parade grounds, a goat carried on a motorbike, flags, headlights on full beam coming out of the night at breakneck speed through a thick, acrid fog of fumes, wedding halls, love, families, meeting people, sweet things to eat, charity organizations,
