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Back in India at last. Only positives to report from Delhi, where the encounter with the mighty central ministry of health was stressful, but the fact that I was able to travel from the outskirts of Delhi to Rajghat in 40 min through minimum stress and dirt via the Delhi Metro to push files, took away the tedium.

Saw Rang de Basanti. Jingoistic to say the least. Some of the songs are cool. Aamir Khan just manages to pull off the college passout routine. The film is basically a parody of British and present India. Ends up with a whole lot of people dead. Blood makes good cinema.

Came across the world's funniest flyover. It begins like a single one way and joins another similar oneway from another road to funnel traffic into the main bridge- so looks a pregnant lady on with her legs astride on straps. Then suddenly in the middle of the flyover a lone traffic policeman blocks out traffic from one lane at a time. The reason- traffic on the left side of the road suddenly makes a shift to the right [aka from Indian to us style driving] so that traffic can rejoin on the right side in the road below. Whoever designed the bridge must have failed all his civil engineering exams. Also an effective way to make sure the traffic cop remains employed. God Help Bangalore.

Planning to hit home soon. And get drunk, Hallelujah