Although the first lecture was billed as "India & Bollywood" (something exciting), it ended up being about the Indian Mentality and why Indians are the way they are. She used the word cosmology 3 times and talked about all the contradictory forces in the universe joining together to be the world that Indian society supports.
The next professor told us about how all the incomes in the world were heading toward convergence, so by 2050 we would be able to form a democratic system of world governance. I can't even discuss this. The depth of this man's distance from reality stunned me to the core. What's even worse is that he had been in a policy-making position of power at the World Bank.
Anyway, after that, we visited two sites with an NGO called Jamgpant that houses and educates street kids in Dehli. We saw both a girls home and one for boys. The kids were so beautiful!
And here is the alphabet poster in Hindi.
We went to get a kebob roll at Nizam's, which we ate lukewarm one day on the bus... Getting them hot and in the restaurant made them taste 8000 times better. They were in fried naan that was luscious. There is not another word to describe how tender and tasty and delicious these were. It's the BEST thing I've eaten in Dehli.
Let's talk about food. We eat potatoes three times a day, and I cannot wait to never eat potatoes again. I'm going crazy and cannot wait to eat something that's not a carbohydrate. There will have to be a post-Dehli detox.
And we picked up our suits, and today we're packing and getting ready for home!
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