Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/12/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice shot, Philippe. What's the story on the bottle opener? Jayanand. Never having been to India, the number of people living there makes my poor brain hurt. The size of the population seems incredible to us living on a green rock beside Britain. It also always reminds me of this Flann O'Brien story... Keats and Chapman were entrusted by the British government with a secret mission which involved a trip to India. A man-of-war awaited them at a British port. Leaving their lodgings at dawn, they were driven at a furious pace to the point of embarkation. When, about to rush on board, they encountered at the dockside a mutual friend, one Mr Childs, who chanced to be there on business connected with his calling of wine importer. Perfunctory and very hasty courtesies were exchanged; Keats and Chapman then rushed on board the man-of-war, which instantly weighed anchor. The trip to India was made in the fastest time then heard of, and as soon as the ship had come to anchor in Bombay harbour, the two friends were whisked to land in a wherry. Knowing that time was of the essence of their mission, they hastened from the docks into the neighbouring streets, and on turning a corner, whom should they see only - Mr Childs? No. Just a lot of Indians, complete strangers. 'Big world,' Keats remarked Douglas On 18/12/2020 10:42, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote: > India is too big and diverse to generalize. The birth rate in my state of > Tamil Nadu. which has a population of 75-80 million people, is low enough > to be comparable to any developed country in the world. We have a > replacement rate of 1.7, which means our population is trending lower quite > alarmingly. > > Cheers > Jayanand > > > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 4:03 PM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > wrote: > >> A different place in time. Much larger families... >> >> On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 3:22 AM Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Probably never posted >>> >>> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Les+Gens/1982-Kids+of+India-21-6.jpg.html >>> < >>> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Les+Gens/1982-Kids+of+India-21-6.jpg.html >>> At that time, people, mainly kids, would ask me to take a photo of them. >> I >>> had brought a polaroid along and traded their portraits on the reflex >> for a >>> polaroid image that I gave them. As was easily predictable, I soon ran >> out >>> of polaroid instant photo film and had thereafter to resort to a >> makeshift >>> prototype of Lluis?s cape of invisibility ? >>> >>> >>> Stay well and covered ! >>> >>> Amities >>> >>> Philippe >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> -- >> Don >> don.dory at gmail.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information