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I am in Kunming, China, just arrived. I weighed myself on accurate airport scales and found that I lost 20 lbs and returned to my high school weight. I spent almost two months in Pakistan and India combined. Food is vegetarian there and pretty dull. Mostly rice with dal (kind of spicy bean sauce). But major factor in weight loss is not food itself but how they serve it. Here in China food is serviced usually by attractive, neatly dressed girls. In India/Pakistan it is always served by overworked boy, who looks dirty and put food on your plate with his bare hands even if a spoon is available. Passion for low sanitary food handling in these countries is very strong and unexplainable.

From Russia to India (part VII: Travel notes on how to loose 20 lb effortlessly)

Alex Mumzhiu
2006-03-22 19:38:33

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My latest impression was from the Delhi, to which I came by the train from the Northern Province of India - Laddakh. There is a well known fact from the biography of Buddha: When Buddha saw a bird eat a worm, he cried 7 days. He cried because he realized that there is no perfection in the world. If he took a train to Delhi he would have a heart attack. The train goes through miles and miles of garbage where people live. It was early morning and there were lots of people doing their number 2 and 1 on flat featureless ravines covered with garbage with some small ponds filled with liquid waste. What do these people drink or eat, not to mention how they wash themselves?

From Old Delhi Train Station I rode my bike to my hotel and at every stop I was approached by many people who wanted to talk to me, sell me something and by very young beggars, who prefer foreigners as more sure target. I spent my first day in Delhi in my hotel room under the fan, pretty upset and angry. Its considered normal when people get upset after visiting places like Nazi's death camps. But these Indian slums with millions of people in them are not less depressing.
And there is nobody to blame - not American, not English imperialists are guilty. This is just side effect of Indian nonviolence and tolerance. India never took effective measures against uncontrolled population growth, like China did. India still produce every year population equal population of Australia. In almost completely deforested country they continue to burn their dead on wood. Cow and monkey continue to roam their polluted and jammed cities. Amount of pollution in Delhi's air equivalent to smoking 17 cigarettes per day. I read that some people after such massive assault on all their senses from noise, smell and pollution prefer to avoid Delhi and sometimes India altogether.

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