Tuesday, December 06, 2005
So I made it through more than two years without any major gastrointestinal eruptions, but now in India I am feeling a bit queasy. I think it puts the kibash on my thoughts about taking an Indian cooking course - bland American fare seems like the way to go at least for the time being.
So I took it easy today, but still got to the National Museum. It is full of archeological finds that look pretty much like a lot of other archeological finds of Hindu and Buddhist figures, but still pretty effective in getting the point across that India - or the Indus Valley, at least - was a very important and early cradle of civilization.
Afterwards, I decided that I needed to medicate my body. Thought about Imodium, but decided that a Coke, a chocolate donut and a vanilla-strawberry frozen custard would do the job. It seems to have been a good decision, but it took a lot of will power. I took my medication in a Bengali Sweets Shop, and all the counters were full of the most mouthwatering confections and food of every description. I may have to go back there in a day or so to make up for my perseverence.
I finally found one of the magazines that tells what is going on in Delhi today. That led to the highlight of the evening, the concert I attended sponsored by the Italian Embassy. The I Solisti Veneti chamber orchestra under Claudio Scimone gave a performance of Vivaldi's Four Seasons among other works. It was marvelous to hear a classical concert again. It has been a very long time. Clearly it was not in the US - they gave three encores before packing it in.
So I took it easy today, but still got to the National Museum. It is full of archeological finds that look pretty much like a lot of other archeological finds of Hindu and Buddhist figures, but still pretty effective in getting the point across that India - or the Indus Valley, at least - was a very important and early cradle of civilization.
Afterwards, I decided that I needed to medicate my body. Thought about Imodium, but decided that a Coke, a chocolate donut and a vanilla-strawberry frozen custard would do the job. It seems to have been a good decision, but it took a lot of will power. I took my medication in a Bengali Sweets Shop, and all the counters were full of the most mouthwatering confections and food of every description. I may have to go back there in a day or so to make up for my perseverence.
I finally found one of the magazines that tells what is going on in Delhi today. That led to the highlight of the evening, the concert I attended sponsored by the Italian Embassy. The I Solisti Veneti chamber orchestra under Claudio Scimone gave a performance of Vivaldi's Four Seasons among other works. It was marvelous to hear a classical concert again. It has been a very long time. Clearly it was not in the US - they gave three encores before packing it in.
