Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Was Holi-2009 Safer?

BBC reported in March 2008:

“A Delhi-based NGO has organised a campaign against drink driving in the city to ensure a safer Holi festival. Activists say thousands of people die in India in road accidents during the two-day festival.

Holi is the Hindu spring festival, when people typically spray each other with coloured water. It is also when traditionally people take alcohol or drinks laced with bhang - an intoxicant derived from the leaves and buds of the cannabis plant.”


Artist: David Sipress, The New Yorker, March 16 2009, Cartoon Caption Contest # 184

My caption:

“Mr. Holmes, I swear all these Dancing Men died on the road, not here. This is where they lay in wet clothes before my bouncers got rid of them.”