https://nohopenofear.net/2012/06/12/mustaches-of-india/https://nohopenofear.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/img_4316-large.jpgIMG_4316 (Large)Elephant Beach, Havelock -- Honorable Mention "Toronto to Tel Aviv" 'Stache Award. Daniel is one of the coolest sumbitches I ever met. we went spearfishing together that day. as you can see, he's pretty damn good at it. that Trevally he's holding was about seven kilos, and the groupers and mackerel hanging from it's snout were quite tasty as well.https://nohopenofear.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/img_4407-large.jpgIMG_4407 (Large)Beach Five, Havelock Island -- Best Facial Hair to Ear Hair Ratio award. he was also a sweetheart; he'd let us borrow his bong for campfires as long as we brought it back clean and full. I learned his name no less than six different times and still can't remember ithttps://nohopenofear.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/img_4158-large.jpgIMG_4158 (Large)Delhi -- Best Henna. This man sells chai on a patch of sidewalk just south of New Delhi Railway Station. he was stern and bent and moody, but his answer to "may I please take a picture of your mustache?" was the same as everyone else's: "Of course."https://nohopenofear.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/img_4211-large.jpgIMG_4211 (Large)Port Blair, South Andaman -- Best Raj, Second Place. it was early and I had just spent 18 hours on planes and buses and I literally ran after this man to ask for a picturehttps://nohopenofear.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/img_4188-large.jpgIMG_4188 (Large)side shot. he was proud, really proud, and that's why he's such a winnerhttps://nohopenofear.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/img_40691.jpgIMG_4069Rishikesh -- not technically a mustache but he gets an Honorable Mention anyway for being so awesomehttps://nohopenofear.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/img_4187-large1.jpgIMG_4187 (Large)Delhi -- this man comes in first -- barely -- for Best Raj. he was the doorman at a Chinese-owned pub in Defense Colony, a rich neighborhood in South Delhi filled with expats and ambassadors and other upper-class Indianshttps://nohopenofear.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/img_4187-large.jpgIMG_4187 (Large)https://nohopenofear.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/img_3793-large.jpgIMG_3793 (Large)Varanasi -- another fine example of mustache wizardry. this man was quite possibly insane, or maybe just had one too many bhang lassis...https://nohopenofear.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/img_4114-large.jpgIMG_4114 (Large)Kolkata -- this guy wins my Well Polished Dali award. 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