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March 26. Inspiring people.

Our host Kaushik flies to Mumbai today to give a lecture about device driver pre-installing optimization. We say goodbye and move to our other host near central Delhi. It takes us a long time, but when we finally get there we feel very welcome. A big blue backpack signalizes the presence of another couchsurfer, ...
March 25. Greenpeace.
A cause. Our host knows about greenpeace and helps us find out where their office is by calling their headquarters in Bangalore. We are finally given an address near Hauz Khas, a southern suburb of Delhi. We take a minibus and find a rather sober office, something that usually makes me feel good about an ...
March 24. Delhi? Gurgaon!
We arrive in Delhi only at 5pm since an accident has caused our train to be seven hours delayed. Our couchsurfer now lives in Gurgaon you see that is a satellite town south west of Delhi. An autorikshaw takes us to the Radisson hotel where we are picked up by Kaushik, a very nice guy ...
March 23. The big fire.
Fire in a Calcutta hotelOn the day we leave, a thick cloud of smoke colors the sky of Calcutta. Sadly, a short circuit has caused a big fire in the same building as where Flurrys is located, the grand café where we had treated ourselves to our morning day just hours ago. Given the seperatist ...
March 20-22. Calcutta. Mother Teresa.
Our hotel in Calcutta is quite comfortable. Unfortunately, our couchsurfer was not available so we couldn't discover the city from the inside as much as we would have liked to. Now we just walk around the old streets and drop by an Italian restaurant that serves delicious pizza. The place is owned by an Indian ...
March 19. Bhubaneswar.
We arrive in Bhubaneswar in the evening, and have some trouble getting to the guest house we have so cautiously looked up in the tourist guide. When a persistent rikshaw driver follows us too long, I step right in front of him and look him in the eyes, silently. Natural alpha-male behavior, and it makes ...
March 18. Delicious Chennai.
The train to the north will leave at night, so we have time to see Chennai. The station offers a reliable luggage deposit service. An Autorikshaw takes us to the beach first, where we take a walk until we are hungry. A bus drops us at a shopping mall, and a lying rikshaw driver takes ...
March 17. Meditating?
Early morning I hike up the mountain. It takes me about ninety minutes from the backside of the temple complex to the peak of the sacred mountain. I walk up fast, carrying only one bottle of water I pick up at a stall adjacent to the temple. I offer this water to a local, but ...
March 15-16. The carpenter does a good job.
We buy more wood for the remaining tables, this time together with the carpenter who knows a cheaper place. He picks the wood himself and he will do everything. We: pay. Sure, perhaps I wake up from my slumbers one day and realize I can't really do anything except from distributing pecunnia. So be it ...