conch

Signs assembled from vehicle tires line a dusty pedestrian route from the paved road to her gas station — a cleverly suggestive Shell station, apparently, given the chrome conches adorning the pump handles.

Protesters blew conch shells - the sound is considered auspicious.

The race starts any time from midnight to noon on race day, with one hour till race start signalled by blowing a conch.

It is more cringy than sweet seeing her flirt with him over how to pronounce “conch.”

An Indian air force helicopter dropped flower petals outside, priests blew conches and chanted, but Modi was the star.