Delhi
Trip Start
Dec 09, 2007
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Trip End
Jul 07, 2008
Delhi,
India
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Plane tickets were too much (I'd lost my credit card remember) but I'd heard of this express train that travels in half the time with comfort, Ac, and free food. I booked it (Nandan let me borrow the money until I could pay him back from the wire I got from the folks...very kind) and had a pleasant ride, sleep, and breakfast
Senator Brantin Sengupta
. Also got to meet the upper class of India for the first time. An interesting experience unto itself. Had intelligent conversations about world politics and economy and arranged a lunch with Senator Brantin Sengupta for later that day. Now this lunch and this Senator was quite a story and I will need some more time to lay it out. But trust me it's worth the wait for this one.Delhi sucks! I'm not normally so direct about places that I'd only spent a few days in. After all Delhi is massive with all kinds of various distinct regions and histories. I barely got a taste, so how could I make such a broad stroke. Well I do so because most Indians I'd met agreed with me. This knowledge in hand I decided to find and stay in a region North of the city that had become a community of Tibetan refugees. It was a good idea despite the heat, and cloud of flies that you had to walk through in the alleys in the day and the mosquito's you walked through at night. I had top notch accommodations for budget prices (ok roaches were everywhere but after a month in India this is a small price to pay for a AC and a tv) and soaked in the quite, relaxed vibe of the Tibetan people that I had missed ever since leaving Mcleod Gang.
