After arriving off the plane at our beautiful guesthouse in south Delhi at 6am, we were out 3 1\2 hours later for a full day of shopping. We came home laden with all kinds of ribbons, trimmings, beads, sequins, and fabrics, as well as bellies full of delicious Bihar food and eyes wide after visiting the studio of emerging designer Rajat Jain, who incorporates luscious beading in his contemporary designs.
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| Embellishment heaven! |
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| Beader's delight! |
Along the way, I also saw some random things that I would not have seen back home...
- The nature strip of a highway used as an exercise track
- A family of four on a scooter
- Another family in a three wheeled open taxi, laden with plaster of paris gods and shrine plaques
- Men picking wax from customers' ears outside McDonalds, with used cotton sticks.
- A girl's pleading face pressed against our car window
- Children making music and doing tricks at the traffic lights to earn money for another.
- Climbing around traffic in centimetre gaps to cross the road
There's something exhilarating, even though unsettling, about being amidst it all. And sleep will be sweet tonight...
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