Saturday, January 16
Learning Moment: Chennai, India
On Saturday, we flew from Singapore to India.
The cover on the left is there only because I like it.
It caught my eye in the airport book store, so I snapped a picture of it. Su Tong is the author of "Raise the Red Lantern", which Zhang Yimou made into a stunning film, starring Gong Li. If you've never seen it, you must.
Anyway, we had a good flight to India and even cleared immigration quickly.
Then we reached baggage carousel hell. One carousel broke down, so two planes worth of baggage was sent to one carousel - 600 people crammed into a space built for about 100.
It felt like being in the front three rows of a rock concert, but without the music. Tight, sweaty, hot, uncomfortable. After getting our bags, we walked a mile or so to our taxi, dragging the bags through dirt, mud, and rocks while cars lined in single file honked their horns at each other just to see what they sound like.
Sixty minutes later, we were in Fisherman's Cove, at our hotel - our sanctuary.
It felt like we found our own redemption.
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