133Foreign Language Friday: This Frenchman and his companion asked what was going on after we disembarked from a ferry from Elephanta Island to Mumbai, India, on which a SOTM picture had been taken.

After I explained matters, he volunteered to pose, but his friend said he couldn’t think if anything. Taken next to the Gateway To India and in front of that rather grand-looking hotel, his board says: “Time has to be taken.”