It seems like an orientation week reunion. Several of us are back together at the
Murthy’s house–-Pragya, Shevani, Liz, Jennie, and me. In fact, many of us are actually staying the
night now. I guess I am not moving to
Coxtown till tomorrow.
Since most of us had the day off, we decided to go to the mall
for a movie. We had a long lunch at the
food court. I actually had two
meals—first Chinese and then Indian fried chicken (so good).
After what felt like a day of shopping and wondering around,
we finally caught X-Men. It was really
good. As by tradition, there was an
intermission and abbreviated sex scenes.
Yesterday, I finished the last installment of eye screenings
at Crescent School. A staff of some 8
volunteers finished approximately 300 HS students before noon. All of the local volunteers have been really
great. I have great hope for India’s
next generation. The Great Indian Dream
was even more evidence of the conscientiousness which is becoming even more
prevalent here. All too often, the
acknowledgements of our errors become a political issue in the US. The speaker from the development foundation
was even more adamant. His presentation
during orientation was both inspiring and dooming, and yet refreshing.
I am almost finished with Swami Vivekananda’s A Study of Religion. It’s actually just a collection of his
lectures on universal religion in the US and UK. It’s made me rethink my atheism. Perhaps I am more of a Brahmanist. We’ll see when I return. Vivekananda does posit correctly that
Europeans aren’t so good at religion.
They use it technically or practically like a tractor or something. (His parallel)
Venkateshji just gave me another book to read. I think I’ll start it next.
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