Ghandi Cap

I have been on the hunt for a Ghandi cap and have been asking everyone where to get one since I got here. I'm sure you can picture this cap. It's the white cloth cap Ghandi used to wear...also like a Steak 'n Shake hat. No one has been able to tell me where to get one. We set off Friday afternoon in a rickshaw determinened to find one.

We asked the rickshaw driver to take us to a shop that sold them. He drove us across town to a shop that of course did not. So we asked the shop owner where to go. In broken english he told us to go to some shop that didn't exist so we asked someone else. He drew a map that took us to another shop that sold hardware. We asked the man selling hankerchiefs, he pointed across the street. They sold t shirts. We stopped someone on the street but he laughed and kept walking. What makes this scenerio even more comical is that everyone walking around this neighborhood was wearing one! It was like a MadTV skit!

We were ready to take a rickshaw back to Model Colony when we spotted another shop that looked promising. We hit the jack pot. Tons of Ghandi hats for me and Doti's for my friend. We easily struck up a conversation with the shop merchant (who looked like Ghandi himself!). He was so friendly and of course asked us 'And you are from?'. We told him and he said his daughter and the rest of his family were living in Dallas! He had even visited for six months in 1997.

This is a typical Indian experience where anything is possible if you are willing to keep asking the question.