Gurgaon Commute  
September 13, 07 
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Sorry for the poor quality. It's tough trying to take a pictures from a car without totally looking like a tourist.

I've been wanting to capture this since I first saw it. Basically it looks like a nice home that was under construction, but has since stopped. In the meantime some squatters have taken residence. Yesterday there was a woman sweeping the dirt in the front. At night there is a single light bulb hanging from the ceiling and people sitting around. The houses around it are completed with people living in them. They have walls, gates, exterior lights and some have guards.


Tractors pulling trailers like this are very common in the streets. 


 Bike taxi.  

Another bike taxi. Yeah I have a problem with bikes like my dad with cars. There's just so many different bikes. I can't help myself. 


Here's the back of a trailer pulled by a tractor. Most of the trailers and trucks have a "Blow Horn" message on the back of them. It's kind of redundant. I can't imagine someone driving by someone else and not blowing their horn here in Gurgaon.  Driving really is different here. People are constantly blowing their horns. Most of the time it's a message to say "Hey I'm next to you" (they drive really really close to each other), but sometimes it's out of annoyance. At night they'll blink their lights too. Even if you see the car in front of you is dropping off or picking up, they'll still blink and honk at them. In the US, you'd start a fight with that kind of "communication".


Some completed office buildings, though I can't honestly tell. The outsides look done, but the insides may not be. The building attached to the one I work in actually has businesses in it, but the outside is far from complete.

 
Then right next to the big new office buildings is this little "market." Some of the "stores" are nothing more then a tarp hanging over a table with goods. What's nuts is at night that little tarp and table with have a light (plugged into some electrical source somewhere) to continue selling stuff at night. Maybe I'll get brave enough to venture out one evening and get some pictures of such things .  


Here's a whole bunch of buildings under construction.



The other end of the above buildings.
 


In the corner on the left is part of the building I'm working in. There were a bunch of cows walking by the entrance this morning. Yeah so it's weird there are cows in the street and everywhere else they want to go. What I don't get is how people and things don't get attacked by the bulls. There's a bull in a pasture down the street from my house. He's behind an electric fence and he still scares me. These bulls just hang out - carefree. Makes you wonder if they really are reincarnated "brothers".

 

This is the view from the corner of the floor I'm working on.


 


 


       










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