ambarvalia: SALAAM HINDUSTAN

In a ten minute brisk stroll from the Hotel Satyam, only two grocery stores are seen. The rest of the shops are clinics ("for skin, sex, VD") and stops selling radios, watches, army equipment, medicine and mobile phones. ... On the floor, in a nook beside me, sat a young Sikh man who looked up from his prayer book and touched his forehead. He pointed to the foot of the black metal case, knee high, housing the book. I got down on my knees and bowed, my head touching the ...