Roundabout

[in process.]

Roundabouts appear before flyovers do. How to enter, how to exit, how to avoid going around in circles: roundabouts are tricky to navigate. At first they aren’t for everyone. They take some getting accustomed to. With two new roundabouts recently constructed in Georgetown, Guyana is in the early days of its roundabout phase, making the roundabout an appropriate vehicle for entering the merry-go-round of Indian Arrival (May 5th), captured in the two photographs below.  

Indian Arrival Day monument, Palmyra Village, Berbice
Indian Arrival Day commemoration, May 5th, 2022, at Highbury Plantation, Berbice

Prominent as it was at this year’s May 5th venues,  the Indian flag, with a wheel at its center, is as fitting an entry point as any other. 

Known in English as the Tricolour and in Hindi as the Tiraṅgā, the Indian flag is itself an historical document dating back to the