Here are some photos from my recent trip to Trivandrum on the Arabian Sea coast, taken with a single-use camera, including a typical view from the hotel; one with my friend Chitra and me; and another of a painting in the lobby that appealed to me:
The ground-cover was a forest-green carpet.
Chitra looks so elegant in a sari. 
Were the women in the painting part of a harem or a salon? I like to imagine that it was a salon.
