Today's route: Enjoying a couple of days back in the big town. Came for the annual meeting of the Caring Friends at Tata Institute, which also hosted a major social entrepreneurship conference at the same time. We were able to meet the founders and representatives of some of the finest NGO’s and social entrepreneurs and were very moved by their stories. One of them works as a Hindu and Non-Kashmiri in Kashmir, has been kidnapped some 19 times, threatened with his life so often he stopped counting and has never - not even once - thought of leaving. In the meantime, the local youth have joined forces and together, they help many children to get their lives back on track.
Weather: fine, not too hot even for you know who...
Cycled: none
Didn't cycle: Just the usual - cabs in South Mumbai and auto riks in the northern suburbs. No roaming around other than inner-city but that’s more than enough. Every journey here is quickly tallying up to a bigger-than-fair share of time, every km can take up to 15 min. Just to get us to TATA Institute of Social Science (TISS) it took us over an hour.
Ate & drank:
8am: cookies and H2O in the cab
9 am: quick breakfast at TISS, don’t even remember what it was. There was pow bahji and omelette, wasn’t there?? Well, there was definitely chai, so much is safe to claim.
11:30 am: tea/coffee break with cookies
2:30 pm: beautiful buffet for the conference participants with dhal, mixed vegies, raita, some sweet dishes, water in small plastic cups
inbetween: cookies, chai, chai, H2O
8 pm: clams and rice (Wiebke), chicken kebab and rice (Kalyan), dhal, H2O
Highlight of the day: bumped into Prof. Madukhar Shukla from XLRI Jamshedpur who was also at TISS for the Social Entrepreneurship Conference and who recognised even Wiebke at first ‘real’ sight despite just having been in touch via Facebook. Remarkable and that’s definitely not the only remarkable thing about him. Check him out at Facebook!!!
Health Check: perfect
Stayed at: Yeah. Sarvi’s place including TV.
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