The tumbledown street where he was born in the island's capital, St Johns, has been re-named in his honour, and hoteliers chatter excitedly about how the island's goodwill ambassador sometimes honours them with his presence for a drink by the poolside.
In the Delta town of Rome (population: not listed on the census website; churches: four), homes are modest, sometimes tumbledown, cars rust in backyards and the steadiest jobs are at a nearby jail.Materially, life is easier than it was.
She appears honest; home remains a two-storey whitewashed box in a humble bit of Kolkata, wedged between a fetid river and a tumbledown bakery.
One doesn't notice absent school children, but Harare's residents talk about those packed off to cheaper, tumbledown schools in the rural areas.
(He replaced Ogama's tumbledown temple with a new one in the proposed new settlement, reassuring elderly widows that the family graves would not be so much moved as reunited).
For decades small-scale miners like her family have panned the river at Aspai, a tumbledown settlement near one of Indonesian Borneo's most famous national parks, in search of bits of alluvial gold like hers.
Saiorse Ronan, an Oscar-nominated Irish actress (who unfailingly enhances the rigour and intelligence of any film she's in), stars as Daisy, a surly American teenager who spends the summer on her relatives' tumbledown farm in England.
Suddenly, just beyond the last and most tumbledown colonia of all, there is a bizarre sight: a neat forest of streetlamps in the middle of the desert, patiently awaiting streets and houses to illuminate.The streetlamps are the city's attempt to reverse the normal order of things.
Mad grandpa in his tumbledown shack can be evicted so a school can be built.
He likens this to an MQM tactic used in advance of the strikes it sometimes calls violence the previous evening intimidates people into observing its orders.In one part of the constituency, Hijrat Colony, an area of tumbledown shacks and cramped breeze-block houses, residents say men on motorcycles had driven round on the eve of the poll, telling people not to vote in the morning.
Draped in a red and gold sari, Shiv Kumari, a widow in Semra village, happily recalls three hours he spent in her tumbledown cottage.
