Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Mata Enfield Bullet

From William Dalrymple's `Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India':

...Certainly on my travels around India for this book I found many worlds strangely colliding as the velocity of this process accelerates.

Outside Jodhpur, I visited a shrine and pilgrimage centre that has formed around an Enfield Bullet motorbike. Initially erected as a memorial to its owner, after the latter suffered a fatal crash, bike has now become a centre of pilgrimage, attracting pilgrims, especially devout truck drivers.


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