Set new personal record for most hours spent sealed in an aluminum tube (15 from Chicago to Delhi), but at least the food was good (halibut marinated in coconut & mint, steamed in banana leaf, with saffron rice and saag paneer (mustard greens, spinach, fenugreek greens with ginger). Blubbered through an incredibly sentimental Indian movie "Mere Baap Pehle Aap" of an aging widower who has a chance meeting with a woman he loved years before. Their reunion is facilitated by young prankster relatives. It's. About. Love. A glutton for punishment, I follwed that with "Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic" about a yuppie, four orphans, and an angel.
Leaving the airport we saw a camel loping along in the dark. My generous company put me up at the Shangri La hotel (see photo) where a staffer applied a red powder bindi just as I entered (also a photo).
