Over three days, we saw this post’s hero repeatedly, each day.
I am pretty sure that he has been “selling to tourists” for at least several decades.
He was unfailingly courteous, persistent, assiduous.
On any given day, he would call in on a great many of Dal Lake’s “better” houseboats, in addition to often happening along to wherever some of the more “deluxe” tourist-carrying Shikaras happened to be.
I photographed him from “our” houseboat’s landing at 9.28 am on 06 May 2024.
We purchased postage stamps from him.
I imagine that his stock of postcards is “slow-moving”; I would be less than surprised to discover that he’d purchased many of the (faded) postcards well before the 21st century began.
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