Two Days to Go

It is Friday and things are still hectic. So many loose ends to tie or hand to others.... such as Carol, Lucky, Magda, Matt....what would we do without friends.

My head is swimming with images of India, modern and ancient, from all the movies I have been watching over the past few days. It started with "Three Idiots" which was on the big screen in Tinseltown. The story was quite a sentimenta/comic one... and the scenery spectacular. That followed by "Water" and then "Earth" both set at the time of India's independence, 1947. The dominant theme in several movies is the constant Muslim/Hindu tension, Pakistan/India. How sad, another people divided by religion. On

flix streaming video I watched "Delhi 6" very interesting contemporary story of an American born grandson who takes his Hindu grandmother back to Delhi to die. Again the religious conflict.
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ferent theme we started watching "Lagaan"(sp?) set at the time of British colonialism. We are becoming familiar with Amir Khan (India's top box office star) the leading actor in several of the movies we saw lately. Last night on Netflix I saw half of a movie about Jalal and his beloved for whom he built the Taj Mahal... quite a story... set in 16th century India...that is one monument we will see on the trip.
Zosia