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“India, the new myth–a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mghty fantasies: money and God.” From Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie.
Claire Rogers
Claire: This is India: anything, any day. One day it may be a strike, the next it may be a holiday. Every day, we’re clueless as to why the shops, restaurants, and banks are closed today. On our way up …
“This is grim,” I thought. We were taking shelter from the steady rain under a roadside lean-to tarp shelter and I had just added my last precious few layers of clothing, save one. Bob had nothing left to put on. …
We thought that sending a package from Almaty, Kazakhstan was pretty entertaining back in 2005. We’d heard it was relatively inexpensive to send from India, so yesterday we gave it a try. We waited patiently in line as people crowded …