INDIAN SIDEWALKS

If compared to rather boring Western sidewalks the Indian have multicultural and intensive economical use.
This can start with a small grocery shop selling cigarrettes and paan to an elaborated bicycle repair shop having at least a bicycle pump and the flat spanners for removal of a wheel.
Very popular is also the shoe shine and shoe repair in the middle of the sidewalk.
Fruit and flower shops are very common and in Pune I could also admire a fish selling place in the middle of the trottoir.
The most spectacular is without any doubt the love for trees of Indians in the middle of the sidewalk always looking for shadow, resulting in real biotopes covering the complete trottoir. Of course taking all these genius applications into account human being has littarly make a step back and walk on the street.