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Summing Solar Savings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Solar Energy Savings)
Fri Aug 5 14:17:46 2016
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 14:08:28 -0400
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<p>Although India is a land of walkers, there is no sound of footfalls. =
Most of the feet are bare and all are silent: dark strangers overtake one l=
ike ghosts. Both in the cities and the country some one is always walking. =
There are carts and motorcars, and on the roads about Delhi a curious servi=
ce of camel omnibuses, but most of the people walk, and they walk ever. In =
the bazaars they walk in their thousands; on the long, dusty roads, miles f=
rom anywhere, there are always a few, approaching or receding. It is odd th=
at the only occasion on which Indians break from their walk into a run or a=
trot is when they are bearers at a funeral, or have an unusually heavy hea=
d-load, or carry a piano. Why there is so much piano- carrying in Calcutta =
I cannot say, but the streets (as I feel now) have no commoner spectacle th=
an six or eight merry, half-naked fellows, trotting along, laughing and jes=
ting under their burden, all with an odd, swinging movement of the arms. On=
e of one's earliest impressions of the Indians is that their hands are inad=
equate. They suggest no power. Not only is there always some one walking, b=
ut there is always some one resting. They repose at full length wherever th=
e need for sleep takes them; or they sit with pointed knees. Coming from En=
gland one is struck by so much inertness; for though the English labourer c=
an be lazy enough he usually rests on his feet, leaning against walls: if h=
e is a land labourer, leaning with his back to the support; if he follows t=
he sea, leaning on his stomach. It was interesting to pass on from India an=
d its prostrate philosophers with their infinite capacity for taking naps, =
to Japan, where there seems to be neither time nor space for idlers. Wherea=
s in India one has continually to turn aside in order not to step upon a sl=
eeping figure-- the footpath being a favourite dormitory--in Japan no one i=
s ever doing nothing, and no one appears to be weary or poor. India, save f=
or a few native politicians and agitators, strikes one as a land destitute =
of ambition. In the cities there are infrequent signs of progress; in the c=
ountry none. The peasants support life on as little as they can, they rest =
as much as possible and their carts and implements are prehistoric. They ma=
y believe in their gods, but fatalism is their true religion. How little th=
ey can be affected by civilisation I learned from a tiny settlement of bush=
-dwellers not twenty miles from Bombay, close to that beautiful lake which =
has been transformed into a reservoir, where bows and arrows are still the =
only weapons and rats are a staple food. And in an hour's time, in a car, o=
ne could be telephoning one's friends or watching a cinema! THE SAHIB I did=
not have to wait to reach India for that great and exciting moment when on=
e is first called "Sahib." I was addressed as "Sahib," =
to my mingled pride and confusion, at Marseilles, by an attendant on the st=
eamer which I joined there. Later I grew accustomed to it, although never, =
I hope, blase; but to the end my bearer fascinated me by alluding to me as =
Master--not directly, but obliquely: impersonally, as though it were some o=
ther person that I knew, who was always with me, an _alter ego_ who could n=
ot answer for himself: "Would Master like this or that?" "At=
what time did Master wish to be called?" And then the beautiful "=
;Salaam"! I was sorry for the English doomed to become so used to East=
ern deference that they cease to be thrilled. THE PASSING SHOW It is diffic=
ult for a stranger to India, especially when paying only a brief visit, to =
lose the impression that he is at an exhibition--in a section of a World's =
Fair. How long it takes for this delusion to wear off I cannot say. All I c=
an say is that seven weeks are not enough. And never does one feel it more =
than in the bazaar, where movement is incessant and humanity is so packed a=
nd costumes are so diverse, and where the suggestion of the exhibition is o=
f course heightened by the merchants and the stalls. What one misses is any=
vantage point--anything resembling a chair at the Cafe de la Paix in Paris=
, for instance--where one may sit at ease and watch the wonderful changing =
spectacle going past. There are in Indian cities no such places. To observe=
the life of the bazaar closely and be unobserved is almost impossible. It =
would be extraordinarily interesting to sit there, beside some well- inform=
ed Anglo-Indian or Indo-Anglian, and learn all the minutia of caste and be =
told who and what everybody was: what the different ochre marks signified o=
n the Hindu foreheads; what this man did for a living, and that; and so for=
th. Even without such an informant I was never tired of drifting about the =
native quarters in whatever city I found myself and watching the curiously =
leisurely and detached commercial methods of the dealers--the money lenders=
reclining on their couches; the pearl merchants with their palms full of t=
he little desirable jewels; the silversmiths hammering; the tailors cross-l=
egged; the whole Arabian Nights pageant. All the shops seem to be overstaff=
ed, unless an element of detached inquisitiveness is essential to business =
in the East. No transaction is complete without a few watchful spectators, =
usually youths, who apparently are employed by the establishment for the so=
le purpose of exhibiting curiosity. I picked up a few odds and ends of info=
rmation, by degrees, but only the more obvious: such as that the slight sha=
ving of the Mohammedan's upper lip is to remove any impediment to the utter=
ance of the name of Allah; that the red-dyed beards are a record that their=
wearers have made the pilgrimage to Mecca; that the respirator often worn =
by the Jains is to prevent the death of even a fly in inhalation. I was sho=
wn a Jain woman carefully emptying a piece of wood with holes in it into th=
e road, each hole containing a louse which had crawled there during the nig=
ht but must not be killed. The Jains adore every living creature; the Hindu=
s chiefly the cow. As for this divinity, she drifts about the cities as tho=
ugh they were built for her, and one sees the passers-by touching her, hopi=
ng for sanctity or a blessing. A certain sex inequality is, however, only t=
oo noticeable, and particularly in and about Bombay, where the bullock cart=
is so common--the bullock receiving little but blows and execration from h=
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