You decide, no you decide, no you decide......

Top left: Hamsa

Above: Claire and Kalpana

Left: Anju

Below: Vishal

In the group picture, foreground left: Sonali and Sunil

You will no doubt be puzzled at my heading for today's blog. It comes as a result of a fascinating discussion I had this evening with Vishal (Dream a Dream's Director) and some of the DaD team. In essence, all about the Indian attitude to making decisions. There are so many occasions when an Indian will leave the decision to do something to the next person - always being ultra-accommodating and never wanting to assert him/herself. I've witnessed it on several occasions whilst I have been here and never really understood it.

Lunch times in the office we invariably go to Cholera Cafe as you will have read. But if I were to make a suggestion or give a choice, it is difficult to get a clear yes or no. Instead you generally get an "if you want" response.

Vishal and a few of us left work this evening for a beer. I went on the back of Vishal's bike and was observing the Bangalore traffic which, as you've seen from my video on an earlier blog posting, is pretty horrendous. And I'm always amazed at why I haven't seen any accidents.

Well, I think this accommodating approach comes into play on the roads too as drivers sort of make way for other cars, bikes, rickshaws, cows, carts, pedestrians etc. And it works!!! Of course if a Westerner were to drive on these roads there would be multiple pile-ups as we are generally such assertive and competitive drivers.....

Just a thought I wanted to share with you and another little insight I've had into the Indian way of life.

Posted on this blog today are some pictures of some of the Dream a Dream team. We all went out for a Biriyani lunch today........Made a change from the daily masala dosa!!