{"id":1626,"date":"2011-01-21T23:02:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T23:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookingatdebras.com\/eng\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2011-02-10T19:38:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T19:38:19","slug":"passage-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookingatdebras.com\/eng\/2011\/01\/21\/passage-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Passage to India"},"content":{"rendered":"

In January Dick and I went to India for the first time. Everything was new: the crush of people, the smells of spices, the constant beeping of horns, and sharing roads with livestock like camels, cows and goats.
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\nThe green and yellow jitney – auto rickshaw – is the standard, taxi-like mode of transportation for masses of people. It looks like a motor scooter with a semi enclosed space for seating 4 people.
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\nBut remember the old challenge: how many people can you fit in a phone booth? Well in India the corollary might be how many can you fit in a jitney. The answer:A LOT.<\/p>\n

They toodle down the highway alongside motorcycles carrying whole families – kids sandwiched between parents in a life-hugging embrace. Massive colorful trucks lumber within centimeters of limbs with big signs that exhort any driver passing to blow the HORN PLEASE! And most drivers are passing in a constant game of cat and mouse where staying in your lane is a non-starter.
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Lunch at the famous Savana Bhavana restaurant in New Delhi famoust for its Thali lunch of Indian breads and chutneys<\/p>\n

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Thali at Savana Bhana in New Delhi<\/p><\/div>
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