Blog #4 – The City

The City:

This city is filled with so many sights. Museums, zoos, temples, churches, mosques, historic streets, film shootings, theatres, country clubs, and markets. It’s the culture that fills the streets with vibrant, bursting energy that reverberates throughout the suburbs. You can see the Indian touch in the styles of clothes, architecture, and flavors in foods. The distinct Middle Eastern flare is evident in the styling of the mosques and cultural centers. The influence of Hinduism is prominent in the temples, homes, and even restaurants of the city. The churches are designed in a gothic fashion, with thick archways and dark panels of wood that are in the entryways. There are gargoyles by the entrances as well. The roads are designed after the British system, since India was once populated and controlled by the British. Hence, there are junctions and dividers, and the roads are quite narrow for such a large city. The homes are modeled after the ancient, ancestral homes of the people of India, and some of them utilize modern technology combined with ancient styles. Older homes have courtyards, and acres and acres of space for farming. There are usually huge swimming pool like ponds where people bathe, and there are still few homes where the only place to shower is in your pool! Women wear saris, here. A sari is a long panel of cloth that has been embroidered, or sequined, and can be made of jute, silk, cotton, nylon, or jute silks. You have to wrap it around you twice, pleat up to seven pleats, and take one part of the material to place over your left shoulder. Women wear it with a blouse and underskirt. Saris come in such beautiful colors and patterns that can be customized to your preference!