Granny’s clothesline

Sunday, January 23, 2005

Clothesline in my grandmother’s backyard. The clothes must be a tenant’s, since she doesn’t wear bright colours.

Two dogs descended the stairs as I framed this picture, then proceeded to make an emergency exit, bounding from stair to compound wall to street. Dogs may not have the dexterity of limbs to climb like cats, but they sure do make good use of available facilities. Poor

brainz had an unnerving experience when the dog sailed directly overhead.

grecianurn — Jan 23, 2005 11:33:58 AM — # ↩

This one reminds me a lot of my paternal grandmother's house (maternal grandmum has an apartment; she's not too traditional and stuff). There was a plant from which we made mehendi and stuff. Can't remember what it's called, but in Tamil its marudhani. Really miss the kind of houses in India.
- ravi — Jan 23, 2005 12:08:10 PM — # ↩
  
  Marudhani is Henna, isn't it?
  - ravi — Jan 23, 2005 12:11:30 PM — # ↩
    
    Yes, I believe so.
  - grecianurn — Jan 23, 2005 12:17:17 PM — # ↩
    
    Mm, yess, that's the one. My cousins and sister and I would pluck those leaves all afternoon while we were supposed to be sleeping, and have our grandmum grind them up. We always made those huge round splotches on our palms and the cap kinda things for our finger tips. I don't know why, it looked pretty sick.
    - ravi — Jan 23, 2005 12:21:20 PM — # ↩
      
      God, and I thought my hindi was bad ;-/
      
      Oh, the splotch/cap thing is pretty gross, I agree. I never figured out why anyone would want that done to them. Nice patterns, sure, I can understand, but the splotch-cap, nah.
    - shradha — Jan 23, 2005 12:49:00 PM — # ↩
      
      i agree too! those lumps of mehndi on finer tips look pretty gross.
      
      is mehndi popular in chennai too? as in traditionally? i always thought it was a very north-indian thingie :P
      - grecianurn — Jan 23, 2005 3:31:45 PM — # ↩
        
        A lot of people are into it... I remember that all my cousins got a mehendi lady to come in for their weddings. But that's all the more north-indian kind of designs, though.
        
        shradha — Jan 23, 2005 3:58:48 PM — # ↩
        
        right...thought so :)
beerbal — Jan 23, 2005 11:58:31 AM — # ↩

It feels so good to see a traditional Bangalore house!
- ravi — Jan 23, 2005 12:07:47 PM — # ↩
  
  It's in Hyderabad, not Bangalore, afaik.
  - beerbal — Jan 23, 2005 12:11:47 PM — # ↩
    
    :-)
    Ok, it feels so good to see a house just like the ones on my street in Bangalore when I was growing up.
    - ravi — Jan 23, 2005 12:13:38 PM — # ↩
      
      You mean you're not growing up now?
      - beerbal — Jan 24, 2005 11:26:41 AM — # ↩
        
        I'm growing in a lot of ways, but certainly not 'up'. Any increase in height has not showed up in measurements for some time now. Bangalore was where I gained all of my height, hence the usage.
        
        Kiran Jonnalagadda — Jan 24, 2005 1:11:31 PM — # ↩
        
        Haha, nice comeback.
- Kiran Jonnalagadda — Jan 23, 2005 2:10:09 PM — # ↩
  
  Sadly, this place is going to be replaced by an apartment block in a couple of years. It's the last holdout in the neighbourhood and it no longer makes financial sense.
  - beerbal — Jan 24, 2005 11:27:56 AM — # ↩
    
    Pxch.
ravi — Jan 23, 2005 12:12:16 PM — # ↩

The dog picture is fantastic. Awesome job there. Do you actually walk around with your phone camera out in your hand and pointed at the world ... or what?
- shradha — Jan 23, 2005 12:46:43 PM — # ↩
  
  Do you actually walk around with your phone camera out in your hand and pointed at the world ... or what?
  sounds so japanese!!:D
- Kiran Jonnalagadda — Jan 23, 2005 2:09:07 PM — # ↩
  
  I wish I could, but (a) I've pretty much given up carrying a camera in Pune since there's so little time, and (b) the scene usually holds long enough to take the camera out of the bag. The dog picture was a lucky chance.
shradha — Jan 23, 2005 12:51:11 PM — # ↩

houses in small towns in orissa look like this too.
my dad grew up in a house that resembled this quite a bit. *sigh* a pity we sold it off.
thanks for sharing jace...brought back some beautiful memories :)
latelyontime — Jan 23, 2005 4:07:16 PM — # ↩

hmmm havent seen houses with clothes drying outside in such a looooong time. used to play among the hanging clothes in my granny's courtyard and pretend its a palce...very nice.
befuzzled — Jan 24, 2005 10:38:57 AM — # ↩

Nice lil' backyard.