The Foreign Service Journal, November 2016

78 NOVEMBER 2016 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL LOCAL LENS BY ED MALCIK n CHENNAI, INDIA Please submit your favorite, recent photograph to be considered for Local Lens. Images must be high resolution (at least 300 dpi at 8” x 10”, or 1 MB or larger) and must not be in print elsewhere. Please include a short description of the scene/event, as well as your name, brief biodata and the type of camera used, to locallens@afsa.org. T he Chennai community liaison officer organized a visit to a Hindu festival at the Parthasara- thy Temple in Chennai’s Triplicane neighborhood, which included a procession of statues carried by young Brahmin men on their shoulders. Afterwards, relieved of their burdens, the young men kicked up their heels. n Ed Malcik joined the Foreign Service as a management officer in 1984 following a tour in the Peace Corps, and served in Douala, Mumbai, Bridgetown, Dakar, Abidjan, Djibouti, Berlin and Stockholm. He retired in 2010 and now relishes his role as a trailing spouse, following his wife, Susan, to Chennai. He took this photo with a Nikon 300s and a 20mm lens.