The enlightenment at the end of the tunnel
January 17th 2006 The one hour estimate that I had been given to get to Varanasi station to catch a 5:10AM train was exceedingly conservative, so I arrived 45 minutes too early. As I was waiting on the platform, I fell into conversation with a South African guy called George, who was tacking a week of relaxation in Varanasi and Bodhgaya on to the end of a business trip. Interestingly, he had attended a Vipassana
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