Most taxis in Bombay have duded-up rear windows, with elaborate decals or slogans.  If John Roman drove cab here, I would hope he’d stencil Voivod’s “Dimension Hatross” album artwork on his rear window.

Taxiback

Incidentally, I think he has family here:

Here’s an autorickshaw mishap, photographed on the way to Panchgani in Mid-July.  With the way these things cruise and weave, it’s a wonder this doesn’t happen more often. The driver was unhurt, by the way.

motorcrash!

The Bollywood hit “Singh is Kinng” (the double ‘n’ is probably because of an auspicious numerological prediction) tells the story of a bumbling country boy from Punjab who is sent by his village to check up on another of its sons, now turned high-rolling mob boss in Australia.  It stars Akshay Kumar in the lead role as Happy Singh and true to masala form featured some smashing action, silly comedy and kickass bhangra-inflected tunes. 

It also featured a cameo during the end credits by Snoop Dogg, who has come a long way since the ‘187 on the undercover cop’ days.  Mumbai Mirror ran this photo of him wearing the black turban worn by Akshay in the film’s big number.

And now, meet the G that (could have) killed me:

A machchar (mosquito), dispatched at my workstation, early July.