Mahatma Gandhi was once invited to speak at the House Of Commons in England. He spoke for over 2 hours and brought an essentially hostile audience to a standing ovation before he was done. Following his speach, some reporters approached his secretary, Mahadev Desai, inquiring if indeed it was possible that Gandhi could mesmerize his audience for that long without using any notes whatsoever. They did not believe it. Desai responded:

"What Gandhi thinks, what he feels, what he says, and what he does are all the same. He does not need notes....You and I, we think one thing, feel another, say a third, and do a fourth, so we need notes and files to keep track."

I always admired that. I love that statement. It rings true to me. Gandhi himself once was quoted as saying, "My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another. My life is my message."

aiyo! kya ho gaya?

i was a delhiite for ten days. but now i'm part of greater mumbai again.

i'll admit it, i do kinda miss stuy people. called jana and started bitching about how much i hated this place and wanted to return. yes it does suck to travel around, esp as a single female. but it's actually quite a bit of fun as well. and i'm perfectly fine here. so i take that back.

shit man, i don't have the time to write half of what i wanna say. where do i start? for one, this country's so polluted. touched down in delhi and i thought i'd choke. the air was like soup. i never knew pollution was sucha serious business.

anyhow, i now have braces and a full fro. i really couldn't be bothered with straightening/otherwise taking care of my hair; i'm too busy trekking one place or another most of the time. i'm slimmer though =) and a bit more gutsy b/c village guys can be such ignorant dickheads. sometimes i'm sorely tempted to kick their asses.

Hinglish sucks ass, but i speak it so well. "Generally speaking.." "as it were...". and then there's the all out hindi: "kya hua?(what's up?)" "kuch bhi nay (nothing)" "nimbu pani cHaiyae (i want lemonade)", among other things.

the good thing though [so far]: i pass for an indian quite well, so i haven't been ripped off as royally as Caucasian foreigners are.

challo!

angelina jolie, brad pitt and family are in pune for the next month shooting their latest film. they're staying at the Le Meridien, and despite "security precautions" they've already been mobbed.

delhi trippin's coming up. loveliness.

chicken and cocktails in a vegetarian country. what is wrong with me? oh well, gettin' buzzed is fun.

ciao!

The Tally

since my last entry i've-

legally done drugs. and i'm not talkin bout prescription shit.
gotten waxed for three bucks. literally. 
been referred to as 'madam'. a LOT. 
learned what it feels like to be a FOB. the hard-knock way.

can you guess?  fun times.

ciao,

merron