Exercise was the order of the day especially if you could see the food that is available. The staff are so helpful and courteous and they eep encouraging us to eat more. Yikes. Tread mill, weights and yoga and I am feeling ready for anything.
We started with a presentation on news media by the chairman of CMS. He was an incredible person with several MA and a PhD. The big message was in rural areas, TV is the most popular, newspapers were the most credible, but radio was the most reliable.
Next we visited the National Museum in the capable hands of our museum expert, Dr. Shobhita Punja who made our morning fly by with us not wanting it to end. We even saw the remains of Buddah in an ornate golden tomb. It was remarkable that it was just positioned in a room with many of his statues and not in an area where it should receive respect and honor.
Now our first solo dabble into Delhi began.
We returned for Chinese lunch at the hotel and then 3 of us took a tuck tuck into the local market. I now know the meaning of scarey and we decided to take a taxi back. I bought some shadow puppets of Rama and Sita, Ganesh and the monkey king ready for my students to role play the Ramayana which is one of the legends I am investigating for my curriculum.
Two hours later, we were back at the hotel, changed, refreshed (in all of 10 minutes) and continued the fast pace to Old Delhi to see the Red Fort and a “Son et luniere” (light show story of the end of British Rule at the fort in the open air.
Enjoy the photos and follow on with this story in my next blog. I took video but it takes too long to download.
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Guess what we found when we got to our beach house
on the north shore?! Since last visit, the owner put in statues of Indian figures and gods, one of them Ganesh. I hope you have fun with the shadow puppets.
Love Malia xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
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