Arrived in Mumbai by bus this morning and filled the day with MUCH shopping. I'm pretty sure I only got ripped off 50%... but what are you supposed to do when you've only got a couple hours to get all your Christmas presents? Anyways, netted another pair of earrings (surprise), and am having a bit of trouble packing the suitcase. :) The internet here at this hotel also isn't that great, which is foiling my plan to download all the House episodes I've missed to watch on the plane. Hmph.
As I was eating dinner tonight (paneer, dal fry, tandoori chicken, and cholay chaat) I realized it was my last properly in India... for who knows how long. It was certainly wonderful to be back, mostly because I promised myself I would return. I promised these people and places that I'd come back to them, and I kept my promise. It's not quite the same as living here again, but there are moments where I'm filled with the same sort of wonder and peacefulness that somehow results from the unavoidable disorientation and disorganization: like watching the strange flat-topped, sparsely green mountains of the Western Ghats; like studying the busy salesmen laying out rolls of beautiful cloth in front of customers sitting on mattresses, shopping for saris; like I know I'm going to feel tomorrow when I make my temporary detour to Marine Drive and look out on the skyline all the way down to the beach. I'll see if I can bottle up that feeling and take it back to Princeton.
In other news, I did manage to find out the name of my new favorite Bollywood song and download it to play much too loudly when I get home to my dorms paper-thin walls. As always, it plays like a dance hit. :)
Uff Teri Ada- Karthik Calling Karthik
Ah Mumbai. One day. One day again soon?
Pune time
Thursday, November 4, 2010
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