Impressions of Rural India Unfortunately I am not able to write these blogs with the leisure and attention to detail I enjoyed when I had daily interent access, but will do my best to keep them up! I have spent the last ten days at the project in the rural village of Amarpurkashi, and I think that the vast chasm between the world I know and this one is only just beginning to fully reveal itself to me. I am having to peel back the layers of my Western thinking, ...

To Amarpurkashi by Train Almost a week ago, I left Delhi for the rural village of Amarpurkashi in India's largest state, the Uttar Pradesh. At 5.30 am (when the train left) Delhi's streets were already teeming; like New York, it deserves the reputation of a city that doesn't sleep. Unlike New York, where that has connotations of a 24-hour party city, Delhi's insomnia is the result of perpetual labour. Unhurried, laid-back, but continually, people are working; sw...