The “residency” in Lucknow was demolished in the Indian mutiny of 1857. The uprising started when Indian soldiers refused to “bite the cartridge”. This referred to the way the paper cartridges containing gunpowder were opened at the time, the problem being that, in order to keep the dry, they had been greased with pork or beef fat.
This, of course, was not in accordance with Muslim and Hindu believes.
When looking for reflections of the Louvre in the windows of the Louvre, I realized a little figure sitting precariously high under the windows of the world's most famous museum. Only when looking at him through my tele lens, I realized that this was art - not suicidal behaviour. I wonder how many times a day the police are called to help? Presumably it's just a reference to Günter Grass' Oskar Matzerath from the "tin drum". Enlarged view of the boy with his tin drum. ...
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