From India, With Love

Greetings from Vishakhapatnam, to be exact.

I arrived on Monday for a 4-day business trip and through the four days i took in the sights (and vastly different) life in this Eastern Coastal City of India.

My stay in brief:
Day 1 - Official "Hello" to a senior partner in the morning, official dinner at night (host = us).
Day 2 - Visit to the partner firm in the day, official dinner at night (host = them).
Day 3 - 7km run up Dolphin's Nose hill to take in a beautiful sea view, then business lunch, then business dinner.
Day 4 - Personal errands (buying stuff), driving up to Dolphin's Nose Hill (again) but this time to visit the Dolphin's Nose Lighthouse (built in 1957), then driving to another famous hill across town, then an official dinner at night (host = Regional boss).
...through all these, while transiting between locations, the livelihood of the locals was evident from the car i was in...

As i am unfamiliar with the less fortunate citizens of our world, this visit was an eye-opening experience for me; the under-priviledged were sleeping along the roads, the poor (even children under the age of 10) approaching your car to ask for alms, the urgent relieving by the roadside, the motorcycles haphazardly plying the hazardous streets, the 3-wheeled taxis weaved between buses and trucks, the cars giving no-hoots about any other road users (vehicle, pedestrian, dog, or otherwise), and the pedestrians jay-walking freely, oblivious to the metal-on-wheels...





Hope all is well wherever you are reading this!