Yesterday was a wild jampacked day....starting with a lecture on Indian history and ending with one, we will get an honorary degree by the end.
The most thrilling sensory overload experience was riding for an hour and a half on man powered rik shaw through the teeming streets of the market...i'm glad to still be alive. The kaleidiscope of colours, peoples, things sent our minds reeling...giant bull cows and camels in streets crammed with cars and buses do have right of way...after Gandhi's grave where I felt some sense of peace return observing his flame and imagining how one man could focus and move a country like India that is so random and haphazard, I marvel...yet in all the people we meet including an indian woman poet, a woman who has been a feminist here for thirty years, and a man who was a professor of poetry and now serves in a high office in the government, I feel within them a deep respect and love for democracy, diversity, and a desire for the rule of law to ensure their independence. One thing on the environmental front...all little taxis and buses were converted to Natural gas...this has been amazing improvement for air yet it is still hazy and dirty. The other improvement...electric crematoriums! They are all over the place.
So, we continue with our i-ku (thanks to Beth for inspring this name) puzzle. Tomorrow I may invite our group to begin submitting their own i-kus for this blog.-
Perch
Brahmins in the street
A constant din of honking horns
Parrots perch on tombs.
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We're off to Agra today.
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