The old centre of Chennai is filled with hawkers who claim their place in the urban street and unknowingly make their shopfronts. Did this tender coconut seller know that many modern stores pay to have their shopfronts look like this?
A slightky upscale café in South Mumbai has a similar shopfront that many people frequent simply to phorograph.
Street vendors have to pay for their place on the street (officially and unofficially) to keep their businesses running. They give a street life. They offer quick, on-the-go experiences making our lives a little more interesting and a little easier.
Why, then, are they under constant threat of being banned from their livelihood? The street belongs to the vendors just as much as it does to the pedestrians and possibly a little more than it does to the vehicles.
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Love the photo, beautiful bouganivillea! Yes it's a shame when big business stops little people from making a livelihood. When I was in Japan, you can sell your vegetables and home made produce from your front yard if you want to. It gave the old people in the neighbourhood a lovely way to contribute to the community, and it made the neighbourhoods so interesting to walk around. My mum would have loved to do that, but we are not allowed to in Australia. .... so developing nations and first world countries are all missing out.
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Japan sounds amazing! Yes, strict commerce laws are sometimes not the most beneficial for small scale businesses.
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Oooh, how pretty. Where was this? I love the hand made, jugaad creations people come up with. Even the hand lettered signs for shops that are made by people who can't read but paint based on the form. You don't need to be an artist to create art. Also slicing those coconuts is not as easy as those women make it seem. I've tried. Cheers for art from the ground up.
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This is from our very own Parry's Corner. Except I largely ignore this part of town coz...it's beyond the bridge. And its chaotic. But I like going in the afternoons because it had SO much life.
TOTALLY agree about the hand painted letters. It is an art form in itself, lettering. I love going to old parts of any town and looking at older, hamdpainted signposts because they are so much prettier than the new, digitally printed ones.
Slicing those coconuts is a nightmare. She does it in 4 swift movements. I took about 1 hour and my coconut was nowhere near pretty at the end.
Hey, you know what we should do? Visit the coconut lady at the end of my street, take all the empty shells and craft some lights out of it.
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