Indien motos et Ménage à trois

A cool example of when in Rome, do as the Romans do.  Except here it is a few vellaikarans (read, white guys), presumed French, doing as the natives do in Pondicherry.  Pondicherry is a former French colony and also known as The French Riviera of the East or La Côte d’Azur de l’Est.

Ménage à trois (read disclaimer below) on motorbikes is common place in India.  Green consciousness of people in India is quite inherent and motor-pooling is a logical sequitur!  Or so I would like to believe ;=)  In reality, it is a necessity for lot of families that cannot afford more than a two-wheel motorcycle regardless of family size.

As for the threesome, not sure who taught whom here:
?? — France — India — France — ??

I took this picture as I was waiting inside my car by the roadside.  It was a nice fleeting moment that I thought captured two cultures, diverging or converging depending on your point of view, coexisting.

Image post-processed in picnik.com with a combination of pan-zoom and matte effects.

Disclaimer: The term Ménage à trois here has not been used to refer to any sexual contexts.  Refers strictly to simple threesomes!  Reader discretion advised.

Pondicherry, near Tamil Nadu, India

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