tikka, whiskey, fireworks oh my!

Hi folks,
Sorry I haven’t emailed any of you back! So busy! I have this Vision Building Workshop all week and related dinners all night so this will be my last internet access for awhile.

How was Diwali? It was awesome! I don’t know where to start. The city’s excitement, fireworks, Christmas lights, everything just skyrocketed. On Diwali eve I went to Ronnies and had some good non-veg and beer with some friends. On Diwali it was Ronnies place again. Many of his friends that live in the same building are bachelors, too poor to travel all the way home for Diwali, so we were all in the same boat. Anjali (Ronnie’s finance) finally got back after her property dispute and she helped us attempt to do a puja. It was really wonderful having our own little puja and although I feel a bit bad since I’m not a hindu I even got to do the tikka. We lit off some fireworks and watched the rest from the rooftop of Ronnie’s building. It was amazing the sky was absolutely littered with fireworks. So much that the sky was completely thick with smoke. I went for a motorcycle ride later in the evening (to get the bottle of Canadian Whiskey I brought from home – figured it was the perfect occasion to break it open) and it was absolutely amazing to be riding down the Christmas lit-up streets with fireworks bursting around me. Anyway I’m horribly ineloquent today and I need to run. Just wanted to give you folks a taste of what dewali was all about.

So I have this vision building workshop all week and than on Saturday I’m heading to Pushkar for the camel fair. I’ll be back on Tuesday morning. Thursday I leave for Bombay and my flight back isn’t until December 3 so I won’t have much time to email. Take care guys!!!

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