Another early start today, as we had a meeting with Dr. Deepak John Mathew, the head of photography at NID. We had a tutorial style conversation about the work we plan to do whilst here in India, it was a really helpful and immensely interesting morning. Deepak is a well of knowledge and fascinating stories.
We all decided to head back on the 1pm bus for lunch back at the campus we stay at, I have to say, it was one of the more interesting journeys, purely because of one incident:
There I was, on the bus, window open, head partly out to enjoy the cool wind and to take photographs. The bus stops at a red light and the waves and smiles start as usual. What wasn’t usual was the man sat on a step about 9ft away, eating nuts that then decides to throw them at me and starts to gesture for me to open my mouth so he can try to get them in. Brilliant! Of course I start laughing, and he throws some more. Which, of course, prompts Hannah and Adam to start making jokes about the man and his nuts! It was a rather funny bus ride, that is for sure!
Once we got back, we had some lunch in the mess, and headed to InfoCity for a swim in a hotel. While we were there we could see the grounds being prepare for the up coming festival – I am really looking forward to Dussehra Garbha, it is a huge festival in Gujarat and the preparations start 9 days before, ending with dancing through out the night of the last day. We have seen the start of these preparations, girls are going into town to buy their traditional dresses, dances are being practiced in the evenings and statues are being made.
As today was a relatively chilled day, there is not much else today, tomorrow we will be spending the afternoon in the city, so will hopefully have much more to tell!
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