30th December 2006 :: Fire Hydrant

This is a fire hydrant in my office building. The word aaag actually means fire in Hindi. It could have been spelled with just two “a” but I guess they put the third one in for good measures or maybe to add more emphasis to it. Sometimes I find it funny the way they write things. There is open and shut with directional arrows Aaag goes with India to complete the name but it looks like “Open aag” and “shut India” to me. Just like “Horn O TATA K Please” written behind trucks in India.