Yet another change of plans... I have cancelled my trip to Calcutta and am returning home on Wednesday.  A professor I spoke to over there advised me that it wasn't the best time for a short and productive trip to Calcutta... West Bengal has had a lot of rain over the past week and many parts of Calcutta are flooded.  Transportation systems are especially unreliable.  So I decided, instead of trying to negotiate a heavy monsoon during my first visit to the city, I would rather come home and start my writing.

There are lots of impressions of Bombay that I would still like to jot down.  Right now I'm quite busy with preparations to leave, but hopefully I'll be able to write a bit soon.

For my last couple of days here, I am staying with Mamaji Mudar and Mami Alefiah in Marol, a northern suburb of Bombay.  Its a very pretty place, inside and out.  Mamaji is an architect and designer, and his flat really reflects his artistic bent.  And when I look out the window I see trees and hear birds, which is certainly a change from my past two months in the city.