So heading on the way back to New Zealand, leaving New Delhi tonight to Hong Kong, and then ten hours there before heading back to New Zealand. Makes it a long trip but it should be good to have a bit of time in HKG to look around.
India has been a very strange experience. We have been in the diplomatic enclave in New Delhi, and so the usual India experience - crowds, beggars, insane traffic, noise, pollution - have all been largely absent (other than the pollution, of course, though that is not as bad now as it was in Mumbai seven years ago). That makes you feel a little like you're missing the point of being here.
Which, of course, you are. I've not been here for India. I have been here for ICANN, for which this was just another meeting in just another town, with people just staying in the most expensive hotels for the shortest possible time, and flying out again as quick as they can...
"for which this was just another meeting in just another town, with people just staying in the most expensive hotels for the shortest possible time, and flying out again as quick as they can...".
If you believed in Socialism and distribution to the poor Jordan surely you would have cleansed yourself of Capitalism and offered to stay in the YMCA and donate the difference to the beggars and the poor of Calcutta.
Yeah...thought not.
Posted by: Cactus Kate | Saturday, 16 February 2008 at 01:31 AM
Hey, the YMCA in Delhi's not bad at all, Cactus. I've stayed there myself.
Posted by: Poneke | Saturday, 16 February 2008 at 10:21 AM
Cactus Kate
What do you expect from Chardonnay Socialists?
Posted by: burt | Sunday, 17 February 2008 at 10:49 AM
The likelihood of Jordan cutting back on spending and redistributing the difference is the same as his hard work at soup kitchens, building homes for the poor, raising money for poverty based charities and sharing his home with needy families.
Posted by: libertyscott | Tuesday, 19 February 2008 at 10:48 AM