Indians continue to amaze me. Apparently Howrah Bridge is a famous landmark in India but pedestrians who cross the bridge kept spitting on it -- the way Indians spit everywhere -- but the corrosion effect from the spit is so toxic that the bridge is about to collapse. Indians were spitting after chewing a product called gutka which -- prepare to be entertained and shocked -- contains betel nut, tobacco, lime, paraffin, lead, arsenic, chromium, nickel, cadmium, and magnesium carbonate.
My Life In Bits And Pieces in Massachusetts.