The Pride Ahmedabad

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... tempt fate with any more ashram visits, and instead found a brilliant bookshop where we bought some recipe books and some Bollywood DVDs, which is more my cup of tea than saintly autobiography. In the evening we went to the cinema. We were hoping the film was going to be an all singing, all dancing extravaganza, but turned out to be a not very good, non-musical comedy. Still it was a nice experience, and at the intermission (why don't we have those at ...

... rupees, we had no idea where we were going but we were excited to get out and make up for lost time. We drove for an hour to another town called Ponda, where we went to an amazing spice farm. We were warmly greeted by a man who threw yellow flower petals over our heads. They sat us down and told us it was tea time. We were given the most amazing tea, cashews that were grown on the farm and a shot of Fenni (Algol made from cashews). The Fenni was the strongest alcohol I have ...

... with 78 companions) in protest of the British Salt Law, which taxed Indian salt in an effort to promote sales of British salt in India. He was imprisoned for many years, on numerous occasions, in both South Africa and India. Gandhi was a practitioner of non-violence and truth, and advocated that others do the same. The buildings themselves are not spectacular but we stayed for quite some time because there was lots of information about Ghandi's life as well as artworks ...

... and read a lot. I read "A brief history of the Middle East" which I got from Katie (my friend from last month). It was quite int**esting and I was amazingly drawn to read it (usually I am not drawn to read non-fiction even if it's int**esting). Islam is quite similar to Chistianity. One god and only one god, heaven and hell, god and satan, angels, a moral code, a bunch of the same prophets. In 800-1200, the Middle East was quite advanced in many areas and ...

... at Gandhi's Ashram. Gandhi started the Ashram when he returned to India from South Africa and it was from here that he started his political movement. The exhibition was made up mostly of quotes from Gandhi, of articles that he had written and speaches he had given, and gave a really good understanding of the way he conducted himself and his political activities. In the afternoon we went to a textile museum where we ended up on a tour showing various ...

... and was done with real estate. I am not sure if I have ever felt so liberated. When you are self-employed, you can spend time not working and feel justified by the fact that you are not not working, you are merely self-employed... Once I quit my "job" being self-employed, it didn't take long to realize that I was (sadly, back) in the world of the unemployed. Worse than that, I had no idea at all what I wanted to do in life: work-wise ...

... which was way nicer, with a really good view over the lake. There were a couple of nice english guys, some dutchies, the food was good, the bad was clean and comfy, there was a nice firework display every night, and there were some decent fishies swimming in the lake, which meant fishing could be done!! For the ones who don't know about this travel-hobby; i love my fishing once i'm abroad; back home i don't care much about it, but here you can catch some ...

... Yet, for the one hour I spend with them each day, you wouldn't be able to tell that they come from underprivileged backgrounds. Their faces gleam with smiles as they make up a new dance move echoing the words, "Boom-Chicka-Boom, Chicka, Boom-Boom-Boom." Since the taal (the Hindi word for rhythm) workshop is a bit ad hoc, each day with the kids is a bit different. Some days I have the kids sit in a circle and listen to different rhythmic variations ...

... tobacco free. We stuffed the round leaf ball in our mouth as the juices sprayed everywhere. I thought it wasn't that bad, Laxmi was not such a fan. We then decided to walk down the street wanting to leap a little further into this idea of lucid dreams. Laxmi thought it would be good to sit with an old woman on the side of the road. We approached her with our hands folded in the sign of namaste and her face immediately lit up in a huge, toothless smile. She looked ...