There's a great new bar open in Chandigarh, northern India in the Kalagram Arts Village Complex on the Chandigarh Shimla Highway: the Condom Bar. Basically it's a place with drinks, music and bar stools ... and a lot of condoms everywhere. As decorations and logos, and also sitting around in bowls free to be pocketed by customers, the condom theme is running wild. Why? Because:
Condoms must be seen as friends, not some embarrassing necessity that no-one wants to talk about.
Curiously, it's a government-sponsored tourism project, Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism Development group pays the bills, so it kinda sounds like not only do they want to promote safe sex amongst locals, they want to pull in a few tourists with the lure of some free rubber. Get in while they last!
Unlike Jude Law, Richard Gere is apparently not the model tourist in India.
According to reports, a court issued arrest warrants for Richard Gere and Celebrity Big Brother winner Shilpa Shetty on Thursday, saying their kiss at an AIDS event in New Delhi "transgressed all limits of vulgarity."
Demonstrators in Mumbai (Bombay) set burned Richard Gere effigies and shouted "death to Shilpa Shetty". Yikes.
Kissing is a huge deal in India. In the past, kissing controversies have even set off spats between Pakistan and India.
Point is, if you are travelling to India, don't kiss anyone, or you may find yourself in an Indian prison, praying to god that well known gerbil urban legends don't become an Indian prison reality.
Jude Law has a new travel partner, Harper's Bazaar editor Kim Hersov, and my how his travel taste has changed.
Back in 2006, Jude was our go to source for the LA's Strip Club scene. Fast forward to April 2007 and he is traveling around India with Kim Hersov, looking like the picture perfect tourist.
Why India? Is he looking to learn from the Hindu gurus, or is the new couple on their way to a beach hut in Goa?
Let's hope it is the latter because it is Africa hot in India this time of year--from a recent travel message board discussion:
Question
Hi ...I will be visiting Rishikesh from April27th. to May11th.
Would u please advise me how the weather will be like? I need your help because it's my first visit of Rishikesh.
Thanks.
Answer
It will be hot, hooot, hoooooot , HOOOOOT all the way. Wear as minimum as you can. Carry an umbrella and plenty of sun screen
If anyone knows the Indian backdrop in the above photo, help your fellow travelers out and leave it in the comments below.
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