It's come to me that a curry is a good metaphore for Indian life: colourful, spicy, hot, highly variable and different every time, and containing a...cardamon. The cardamon is used to perfume a curry. It does, but if you have the bad luck to get it in your mouth and crunch, it tastes very strong, like a foul soap, you just want to spit it out.
Similarly India life has all the positives of a curry and also the cardamon is lurking there.
The trick is remembering that the cardamon is not the whole curry, a bad Indian day isn't a whole year!
Photos by Just clicked and Charles Haynes on flickr.com
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