New Delhi
Wildfox
Anthony Swanston
Sun 18 Feb 2018 10:14
I arrive in
Delhi after a very early start and my pick up car has not turned up. When I get to the hotel the wifi does not
work and my electronic key card fails and we cannot use the pool as it is set
aside for a private party. All parcels
with UPS, Fedex and DHL are stuck in the mud.
This is India.
Our group
meets up, all goes well except the restaurant has forgotten about our dinner booking
for 14. Next day we go on a city walk
led by a young girl called Anny (second name Anthony). She is a rescued street
child, speaks perfect conversational English (taught by the rescue centre) and
is intelligent and well adjusted. She
does not know where she is from, thinks she was maybe nine when first rescued
and doctors now guess her age at 14 or 15.
Litter
everywhere; huge amounts of it. We go to
a massive mosque then to a Sikh temple which is as colourful as it is
cheerful. Downstairs a small army of
volunteers prepare free food for the needy.
Of which there is no shortage.
This is
India…
