Sticky in Chennai

In Mumbai everytime you stop at a crossroad it's a wonderul opportunity for all sorts of industrious people to stroll up to your car for a little commercial activity.  Most of the time you hear a tapping on the window to see a small child asking for a coin.  Or very often it is a young woman displaying a tiny baby.   Other times it is someone selling trinkets, books or fruit.  The boy pictured above came up to our taxi and blew a massive cloud of thick smoke into the car using a small coal burning incense burner and a peice of cardboard.  His efforts left the four of us gasping for breath and laughing in hysterics.  I assumed his plan was to continue to gas us until we paid him to leave.  Turns out he wanted compensation for this valuable social service of an immediate air refreshing.