Hi. We move from ghetto to ghetto at the speed of sound. Now we sit in cramped quarters at the Majnu Ka Tilla. It is the North Delhi area next to the River Yamuna where the displaced Tibetans have put up shop.
Today is dull and rainy. Most of the stores are closed. Up here the alleys are tighter and everyone is all monked out (wearing traditional tibetan maroon robes). Tibetans are generally more chill than indians. The scene is much closer to that of Macleod Ganj without the stunning himilayan backdrop, Richard Gere wannabe bud-ophiles... and the monkeys.
Michele and I had a great meeting yesterday with the Deaf Women's group and are excited about the upcoming conference. I think that it will be fun to talk about technology and empowerment for people with disabilities. She is planning lots of exercises and check-in sessions with the women. I may just talk at them for 2 hours about the "Wonders of the Magical Internet" until they throw stuff at me... just kidding. They are too polite to throw things at the presenters.
I tortured the group by asking the women in the craft-making workshop to make me a cover for our Lonely Planet - India guidebook. It seems like one of things tourists would go crazy for. Everyone of the hippie backpacker types carries their guidebook like a bible. The two different camps: Rough Guide and the Lonely Planet seem to get along ok, but it is really a facade. The rough guide types know that the LP carriers are pansies...
Maybe it is just us 'muricans, but I think that people like to accessorize. I wager that the Delhi Deaf Women's Foundation guidebook cover will be the next big thing in Delhi craft stores.
They will go like hotcakes off of their website. Can't wait for the IPO.
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Jamie and Michele have rallied against all popular wisdom and good advice (again). Their visit to the indian continent should provide you with hours (if not minutes) of reading pleasures. Please sit back and relax as they selectively share their entanglements and stories of woe.
