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Carolyn: Changi Airport in Singapore is great: a rooftop pool, a butterfly house, a koi pond and free internet everywhere.
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Carolyn: There was even a woodblock printing station.
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Carolyn: The card catalogue at the Theosophical Society library in Chennai.
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Carolyn: The library was empty but for two women working at old-style school desks.
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Carolyn: Humidity is wreaking havoc with their collection.
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Carolyn: Madame Blatavsky looks bored. We wandered through the grounds looking for the tree under which Krishnamurti addressed 3000 followers. The tree is gone.
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Carolyn: In India, I noticed that people are very assiduous about keeping their calendars up-to-date.
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Carolyn: The library brought to mind school libraries. I'd expected it to be busier.
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Carolyn: We were shown their museum room. These were the first palm leaf books we saw.
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Carolyn: It wasn't clear if these books contained prophecies.
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Carolyn: A tiny Lord's Prayer.
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Carolyn: Lisa alerted our guide that the Hebrew text was upside down.
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Carolyn: Hand-painted signs everywhere. Our auto-rickshaw driver thought it strange that I took this photo.
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Carolyn: The Tara Books workshop.
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Carolyn: These screenprints are for their book 'The Night Life of Trees.'
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Carolyn: The craftsmen are fast printers. They live at the workshop, commune-style.
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Carolyn: The drying racks were stacked head-high.
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Carolyn: C. Arumugam, with their Grafo press.
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Carolyn: His motto is "Nothing is impossible." The press looks to be a Heidelberg Windmill replica.
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Carolyn: The day I arrived in Chennai was Ayudha Puja, a festival honouring tools and conveyances. Taxis, trucks and rickshaws are festooned with flower garlands. The press is marked with tilak.
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Carolyn: I'm embarrassed to admit that I mistook the tilak for paan spit at first.
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Carolyn: The strap on Lisa's new bag broke in Pondicherry. A roadside shoemaker fixed it.
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Carolyn: Boys selling fairy floss rang brass bells. The fairy floss was intensely fluorescent.
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Carolyn: The elephant outside the temple in Pondicherry.
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Carolyn: I noticed stalls selling rope on our first day in Chennai. Soon I started noticing insane scaffolding, held together with rope.
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Carolyn: We came across this small market in Pondicherry.
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Carolyn: We were hoping to see the French influences on the food in Pondicherry, but we couldn't really tell.
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Carolyn: It was strange to see apples at the markets.
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Carolyn: It was the middle of the day.
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Carolyn: This man wanted his photo taken with a tiny goat carcass, testicles still attached.