Shawls from Ranikhet

Here is a little video about showing how shawls are made in a small workshop in Ranikhet.

Uttrayan...flying kites in Ahmedabad

This is a little video that I made a month or so back. A sequence of computing problems have prevented me from posting this. I'm hoping now that this will work.

The video was shot in Ahmedabad on 14th January by my flat mate Aaron and I...

And here are some links on how to make your own kites:

http://www.skratch-pad.com/kites/make.html

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Kite-Out-of-a-Plastic-Bag

http://www.making-and-flying-kites.com/

monsters

Hey....I've got a special treat for some of you. I'm thinking especially about Rohan and Dhruv, but I reckon someone in Bristol might enjoy this as well:




This line of lorries is regularly parked up on this one roadside in Ahmedabad...they come from all over the state and country, dropping, picking up, shifting and loading. I only captured about a half of the line of lorries in the clip...

I've hitched a couple lifts going from place to place for work...here's a picture from the inside of one of these beasts:




Rupesh

ps I wrote this blog about two months ago and have just figured out a way to post it...So fingers crossed that you can see it! If you get the video and it works well for you, let me know and I can do more....