It's been a while since I last wroteand much has happened. Here's a quick run-down: After Rath Yatra festival in Puri I met with a small NGO there and then travelled to Bhubaneswar for another meeting. I really liked Orissa, the country side is really beautiful--tropical jungle, rice paddies, and green fields and hills. Bhubaneswar, on the other hand, is the armpit of India. It's really dirty and overcrowded, the hottest place I have been, super conservative, and everything shuts down at 11:00 at night. There are bars to hang out in, but they are all in seedy alleys or underground with blacked out windows, dim lighting and full of smoke. It just feels like your doing something wrong by being there! I scooted out of that town ASAP. Before I left though I went to
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