Sorry for the long delay in
posting. Things are very
quickly coming to an end here in Nagpur and a couple of things came up: 1. My computer died – but don’t worry it’s back! 2. We turned in an
abstract on Friday for work that kept me busy the past couple of weeks.
But back to Delhi.. on Thursday I had a night flight back to
Nagpur so I got up and out early to go see some more of the city. I went to the Qutub Minar complex and
really enjoyed walking around all the ancient ruins and reading about the
history!
Afterwards I went over to Khan Market and picked up some beautiful scarves from Kashmir, a region of northern India. I noticed when I was bargaining with one of the shopkeepers how much my sense of money has shifted over here. I’ll spend 5 minutes bargaining over 200 rupees (about $4) and things that I might spend $10 on at home I’ll leave behind if I can’t get a price lowered to half of that. I have a feeling that I’m going to be horrified the first time I have to buy something back in the US.
After that I went back to the Khannas’ son’s home for some
lunch before heading to the airport.
It was really amazing to fly out of Delhi at night. I got to see from a birds-eye view the
lights of the villages as we flew over India. It would be completely dark and then a small cluster of
lights and a little further away another cluster. And as it was still Diwali time, there were occasional
fireworks – it was cool to look down on them instead of up!
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