Mother India

Mia pou tes fotografies twn slums. Touta ta slums htan toulaxiston konta sth fysh. Prin na paw sthn Bombay, alaloun oti ethela na paw na dw ta slums. En exreiastike.Oullh h polh en slums. Oi llion pio "kathws prepei" geitonies en h ekseresh, tziai tziamai, pale eshei kosmon pou tzoimate, plinnisketai, trwei mes to dromo, poukas tes gefyres.

Anyone for pork chops?

Tounta shoirouthkia evoskan oullh mera mes ta skoupithkia. Amman epernas nyxta pou touton skoupidotopo, ekathountan 4-5 mwra mitsia tziai ekamnan kakka tous...

Discover new notes to education...

Polla endiaferon efaniken mou to shmadi panw sthn porta, O agkylotos stavros (anapodos), pou fernei tyxh tziai onomazetai... swaastik! Mia gnwsth mou germanida pou epien na zhsei sthn India me ton antra ths, eipe mou oti ths to ezwgrafisan oi geitones pas thn porta, tziai tzeinh ekleen 3 meres, giati enomisen otin tous elalousan nazi. Oi geitones ethelen mono na tous euxithoun kalh tyxh...

Swaastik loipon....

O gamos, h oikogeneia htan plousia o gamos epien 4 meres. Mia skhnh pou th synodeia tou gamprou sto gamo, me xorous tziai panayrka tzia yperoxh mousikh. Oi kopelles htan oulles koukles!

To mysthrion tou gamou pou paei 3 wres (analoga me thn fylh)... alla toulaxiston kathountai.

Ekama mono 5 meres, alla eniwtha oti eleipa enan mhna. Pou ta polla pou eida...

Eksanatakseidepsa se xwres tou tritou kosmou (ou, to 3os kosmos en politically incorrect nomizw) eee... se anaptyssomenes xwres, alla tosh ftwshian en eksanaeida. Ta provlhmata mas emas en mhdamina. Thn hmera egyrizamen thn Bombay tziai ethorousamen thn ftwshian, tn nyxtan epiennamen sta party tou gamou (epien 4 meres o gamos) se polytelestata ksenodoxeia. Enoxlei me tounto xasman. San Kypraioi ths genias mas, en ezhsamen potte xasman koinwnikwn taksewn. Egw ezhsa to otan eminiska sto Cairo gia 6 mines, pale enoxlan me alla en htan toson megalon oson sthn India.

Apoxthsa tziai merika insights, sto pws thwroun oi (merikoi) Indoi thn eurwph.

H parakatw syzhthsh elave xwran se ena pou ta trapezia tou gamou.

Indos 1: They should have installed central airconditioning in this hotel, as opposed to units.

Indos 2: King kserwgw of France built his palace without bathrooms and sat behind a curtain to shit. He then called his servant to pick it up.

Postbabylon: Well, the French aren't really famous for being clean. (kserw to exw ta mazin tous Gallous:-))

Indos 1: Ha! name one Europpean who is clean!!!

schlaaaaaang! Ekatsen mas thn! Otan to eipe en ethixtika. Ethimithika ton papan mias filhs mou sth Kypro pou en ethelen h Indh na mpainei mes to spitin tou - monon thn veranta thn afinen na katharizei hiati anekatsian thn, thn ksimarismenh!

H alithkia en polla katharoi oi Indoi (osoi exoun prosvashn se nero fysika). Lounountai to prwi, prin tziai meta to fai tziai prin na ppesoun.

Kathe xwra eshei ta stereotypa ths. Ta stereotypa, oson arnhtika tziai na eni, eni mporoumen na ta apofygoumen, sthn arxh toulaxistoun. Prosferoun mas enan prwto prosanatolismon se enan agnwston lao, mian agnwsth xwra. Meta en eis to sheri tou kathe nou na paratirisei tziai na filosofisei, gia na anagnwrisei to stereotypo. Giati analoga me ton tropo pou megalwnoumen tziai koinwnikopoioumasten thwroumen ta pramata gyron mas. Oses pio polles empeireis exoumen tziai osa pio polla pramata eidamen toso pio llia stereotypa mporoumen na exoumen...