Namaste India


Having arrived at mid-day, little did we know that an oven or furnace of heat would be there waiting at the airport to greet us. Now tell me, how many novels have you read where it's begun like that. It's little wonder that the English language runs out of euphemisms to describe such a thing but that's the closest in the descriptive language of English we can arrive at to conclude that it was 'hecka hot' as, generally it's not.So, there are a gazillion ways to describe depressing, dreary, overcast weather, but moggy or humid would rarely be used. In Hindi, they would perhaps nod their head from side to side stating that it's so-so, in Gujarati they would make a welcoming hand gesture and write it off as normal but in Ireland we would say 'it roasts the pants off ye and we're not even on the beach yet. ' Such is life when one is unaccustommed to difference.Welcome change! Salaam grey days of yore!