Hey all! Well, Jaipur has been done, and am now in Palampur :) Its an amazing place - right in the base of the Himalayas, so I'm currently waking up to amazing mountain views. (photos will appear... but XP is needed, and thats not easy to find...) So - last week I was in Jaipur, mainly to go to various talks about the work that we'll be doing, and about India in general. Stayed with a local family for three nights, which was really interesting - many discussions on arranged marriage, Hinduism, Diwali (which was yesterday) and other such things - all things I've spent three years learning about, really good to hear it all from an insider perspective. Went to see a Bollywood film! We went to the Raj Mandir, which claims to be the
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