AHHH! Oh - look at the pretty colors. AHHH!

(photo courtesy of The Associated Press)

Saw this on the cover of The Wall Street Journal this morning. Pictured above are state government employees in India protesting, demanding pay increases and other concessions. The police are using COLORED-water cannons on the protesters.

Why the colored water...and why the purple-colored water? I'm sure there's a logical explanation. Maybe it makes the demonstrators happier as long as they're being blasted with colored, high-pressured water, thus making them more docile and easier to quell. Or maybe the AP photographer said, "I'm sorry but this isn't working for me. Could we have some teal - no, purple-ish, violet water instead of the regular water? Good. Now THAT's the India I wanna capture!"

It does make for a prettier picture.