Heading Off

Im heading out of Mumbai for the weekend again. Diwali day off tomorrow so early start.. Train back to Goa to visit the south my motorbike. Have been in a good routine here including an evening walk home after work 40 min along the beach and a morning jog. The humidity has dropped and much more comfortable. I have decided that you could live quite comfortably on the beach. The high water mark has everything.. All manner of food, wrappings, tooth paste, tooth brushes, clothes, syringes, condoms. etc You would never really need to shop if you dont mind reusing...
I have been hanging out at the Iskon Hari Krishna temple quite a bit in the evenings. Just 30 yards from where Im staying, it is very beautiful and has lots of chanting and incense You can also eat, Govinda restraunt (highly recommend!!) or from their food court. Well worth a visit if you are in Mumbai.

Happy Diwali!!!

Everyone is going a bit nuts here at the moment. It is Dawali season, crackers going off everywhere, people singing and dancing in strange places and lots of beautiful Puja (sand/rice/salt) drawings on the ground. Have to be careful not to stomp in a clumsy aussie way through them.
Puja

Im starting to run out of time here. I am visiting a few other Universties early next week and will just be at SNDT for another 3 days to write report, then off to Rajistan. I have been having a few meetings here with people from Social Inclusion regards potential for student exchange which could be a great thing for some of our Social Work students. My host veena has headed off to see her family so I wont see her again here. We have been having lots of lunches and gatherings in the lead up to Diwali which usually break into song, sometimes dance.

typical lunches form the Uni canteen: watermelon juice, lassi, noodles, thali..