Funny things which South India has to offer

 

1: At Mahabalipuram beach visitors shower water on themselves before entering the sea and then take water home in bottles.

2: Best way of bonding on the go. Motorist on two wheelers are seen pulling their friend on bicycles and chatting along the way even on highways.

3: Promenade, Rendezvous, Ajanta,Madame Shante’s, Le Club, Le Dupleix, Asian these are hotel names in Puducherry originally known as Pondicherry.

4: Ganpati’s immersion procession which had more than 30 idols of different sizes are told to line up on the promenade and paraded off by the police to the shore, where they are instead of immersing thrown from a height.

5: Home Ganpati idols are brought for immersion in plastic or cloth bags, small prayer is said and the idol is thrown in water with all the flowers.

6: Danish people went bankrupt time and again trying to set up their business bases in Tranquebar and thus had to sell their properties including a fort to the British Raj. The locals still favour the Danes over everyone else.

7: No Idli-Dossa or snack items served in traditional south Indian hotels once it is lunch or dinner time because, ‘Meals are ready’.  

8: Locals walk bare foot during their visit to monuments in Mahablipurram and god only saves them from cuts as glass pieces scattered around the heritage structures after boozing.

9: Auroville which is soon going to be an international city does not have electric poles on its pathways, thus all activities have to compulsorily stop by sunset.

10: You know you are near a ‘Spiritual place’ if you spot rows of stalls selling ultra-loose pyjama’s and kurtas with divine prints on them.  

11: The most telling sign of a place, hotel/palace/heritage structure being from the glorious past is its super heavy, unnecessarily large furniture, nonetheless with beautiful ornate work on it.

12: Women wear heavy gold ornaments with gods designs inscribed in them---they really take their god’s very seriously.