Dhoby Ghaut
On the recent trip to Mumbai, Seong got a driver to bring him around to visit the various so-called tourist spots. One of them is to see the Dhoby Ghaut or Dhobi Ghat. The latter is actually a hindi word for a washing place. Typically in India, Dhobis (washerman) call on regular clients, collect their dirty clothes and then take them to the Dhobi Ghats. From the picture, you can see rows upon rows of concrete wash pens, each with its own flogging stone. The Dhobi sloshes dirty linen into a soapy water mixture, thrashed with the floggin stones, and then put into huge vats of starch, after which they're dried, ironed and delivered to the owners. I am just surprise that such primitive washing methods are still being used.
