How to be a monkey

On adapting to current realities quickly

In India, the streets are a lesson in attention.

I carefully avoid the cow pies like an obstacle course across the crooked cobblestones, my flip-flops offering weak protection.

You must be able to quickly move out of the way of all the various street denizens.

Bulls with their rack of horns.

Motorscooters incessantly shrieking shrill high-pitched ‘Mmeeep-…