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...tiny nook opposite the toilets in the second-class carriage to rest and read a few pages of Tales from Shakespeare in his native Malayalam. "Wonderful stories," he told me, his body rocking with the movement of the train. A passenger appeared, nodded hello and leaned against the metal frame of the open carriage door so as to watch the countryside lazily scrolling by while he smoked a cigarette. "I enjoy the quiet, slow moments," Mathai said, as we snaked our way up a scrubby pass. "Sleeping people are quiet people...
...whisk Man after himself and the whole of humanity. And he created new techniques, including the Rayogram: the contours of everyday objects magically emerge on paper without anything actually being photographed. The Rayograms are ethereal, light-filled and lovely, though still obviously merely a saucepan, say, or a metal spring...
...That won't impress vegetable vendor Faiz Mohamed, 50, who says that Pakistan's economic success in the past few years has benefited only the elite. "A particular class has earned a lot from the investment, the new [cell] phones, all that," he says, from behind his worn metal scales. But, he says, "the poor man has become poorer...
...central Caracas subway station, metal barriers, manned by national guardsmen, cordon off a long hallway. The site is reminiscent of a military checkpoint, but the eager consumers seeking entrance are there for a less sinister reason. They're stocking up on basic food supplies such as rice, black beans, and what has, in recent months, become the Holy Grail of edibles: powdered milk...
...prevailed upon to create a device that pedestrians could carry in order to exact the most possible inconvenience to other people and threaten the most sensitive parts of the human body, it’s likely that the end result would look much like an umbrella. With its deadly metal spikes spreading around at eye-level from an enormously cumbersome circumference, the umbrella is perfectly designed for destruction. Part ninja shuriken, part medieval buckler, and part retiarius’s net, the umbrella is a deadly tool in the hands of the sidewalk bumbler...