Over the top is just enough

It's just a couple hours until we leave Delhi, but there was one other set of photos I wanted to post. From a florist near my house where you can see the guys outside making flower arrangements, and they are using cans of spray paint to, quite literally, gild the lilies.

One of the things I find most striking about many Indians is that they just don't have share the NPR demographic's self-conscious, fussy, and ironic approach to public displays of consumption. It's a disarmingly sincere aesthetic.