"No matter how determined you are, you'd be pretty hard pressed to find much to gush about when it comes to Chennai" -- Lonely Planet. A day to kill before the tour starts - what to do? With such a glowing introduction from Lonely Planet, I decided to eat, sleep, and sort out money. Awesome. A wander up the main road to the ATM at the train station involved dodging rickshaws, motorbikes, cars, piles of cow dung and leering males (as with every city in ...

Mumbai - 15 minutes of fame! I landed in Mumbai at about 2am. Descending through the layers of smog (yes, you can actually see layers as you drop through them), I could make out the odd twinkle of lights. It wasn't until we actually landed and stopped on the runway that I realised what I'd been able to see was lights from the slum which is right next to the airport! Still sitting in the plane, I could look across and see shacks made of corrugated iron, scrap woo...