You know, if you visit friends in the suburbs of Delhi, on the side streets you will find a fellow with a cart that looks like it was designed in the 16th century, wielding a coal fired steam iron that might have been invented in the 18th century.

If one visits a friend in a Delhi suburb, one will notice on the side streets an istri wallah with a wooden cart that looks like it was designed in the sixteenth century, using a coal fired steam iron that looks like it was invented in the eighteenth century, to press clothes from the neighborhood.