You may now address me as "your majesty"
For I have apparently conquered one of yoga's ultimate challenges: the King of All Poses. This is the one that involves leaving your neck on the ground and raising pretty much everything else up into the air. You know it's great because you have to do a counter-exercise immediately after it to prevent blood pooling in your brain.
Aside from flirting with unconciousness, it's been an eventful past few days. We spent Monday visiting the summer residence of Tipu Sultan, a Muslim ruler of the state of Mysore who led one of the most effective anti-British resistance movements. We also stopped by a little shack to see sugar being made (the smell is absolutely legendary) and visited an 800 year old temple that had been desecrated by Muslim invaders. The architecture really is spectacular, with hundreds of little figures carved into the stone walls of the temple. I'll post pictures once my Internet connection stops sucking, which is scheduled to occur in the year 2054.
This weekend we're going to a temple where we'll be blessed by elephants. The hits just keep on coming.
Aside from flirting with unconciousness, it's been an eventful past few days. We spent Monday visiting the summer residence of Tipu Sultan, a Muslim ruler of the state of Mysore who led one of the most effective anti-British resistance movements. We also stopped by a little shack to see sugar being made (the smell is absolutely legendary) and visited an 800 year old temple that had been desecrated by Muslim invaders. The architecture really is spectacular, with hundreds of little figures carved into the stone walls of the temple. I'll post pictures once my Internet connection stops sucking, which is scheduled to occur in the year 2054.
This weekend we're going to a temple where we'll be blessed by elephants. The hits just keep on coming.
posted by Jake | 3:32 AM
1 Comments:
I was thinking about your diversity/minority paper while reading a piece in the NYTimes today about the Zoroastrians. they are older than the Jews and gave the jews the ideas about one G-d, heaven/hell, and the "afterlife". There are very few z's left but apparently there bunch are in India. They had their hey-day in Persia.
Glad to hear you can stand on your head until unconscious. ...and as for those elehants blessing you, i hope they are not Republicanws. which reminds me, is there any interest in the US mid-term election in the Indian press?
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