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“Amazing” or “commonplace”? (#6 in series of single-image south India teasers)

 

 

Just one week ago we were enjoying our final early morning safari in Karnataka’s Nagarhole Tiger Reserve, before a long drive to Bengalaru (formerly Bangalore) and our longer-again, two-flights journey home.

To an Australian visitor, what you can see above is an utterly amazing, very “exotic” sight.

To a local person who is very familiar with this national park, it is a perfectly ordinary circumstance.

Such an “amazing”/“commonplace” duality is a tag that applies to a great many things in India…and Australia too.

(try to imagine how “utterly unlikely” an emu, a galah, a kangaroo, or a blooming kangaroo paw must look to someone who has never before encountered any of them)

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