Hindu Festival
Today marks the beginning of the Hindu festival season, so there was a parade through the middle of Chandi Chowk, making what is normally a crowded situation even more so.
This is just one of many floats whose accumulated story Nigel said depicted the defeat of the Demon King Ravina by Lord Ram. I got a thumbs up from the guy with the handle-bar mustache shortly after taking this picture.
Nigel had no idea why Charlie Chaplain was involved in the story. I find the idea of Indians in "white-face" funny, for some reason.
This also marks the end of the Nigel tour. Shortly after this float passed our driver arrived with the car, and we parted ways with Nigel.
posted by Linton at 12:00 PM
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I was skimming through "The World Is Flat" during my lunch break and I found a possible explanation for the appearance of Charlie Chaplin in the parade. His image is being used to market mobile games and screen savers by the Indian company Dhruva. See: http://www.dhruva.com/html/mobile_chaplin.htm
But perhaps this generates still more questions than it does answers.
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