Ni Dieu Ni Maitre
The Going Itself is the Way
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This post is out of sequence, as a retrospective on India was planned. As has always happened, the departure from India was part ‘never again’ based on the outrageous and continuing pollution of the atmosphere throughout the subcontinent, and a desire to visit the Northeastern states which currently mostly feature clean air and diverse cultures.…
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If you were able to access my posts, Obsessing and Obsessing 2, you are aware that the big concern over the next move has been Air Quality and the Air Quality Index (AQI), with air pollution being a massive problem these days in India especially. Now added to this is the winter monsoon in the…
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I like to drink beer, and am always curious about new beers. That said, Indian and Southeast Asian beers have been nothing to crow about for the many decades I’ve bicycled around these parts. The only American mass beer that uses rice in their mash is Budweiser, but most beers here do also. Bud uses…
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I see that ‘Ni Dieu Ni Maitre’ is nowhere mentioned in the headers over this post. So it too will probably not appear on ‘my’ blog And it’s ‘my’ problem. What a cheezy rip off. Why do the cows love the beach? This area is deserted, no people, no discarded food, just sand and sea.…
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Put on my hiking boots and set out after breakfast for a walk to Benaulim beach, a few KM south. I had heard that there was some night life there and no crowds with a vibrant fishing community active as well. Sounded ideal. This beach stretches for miles and miles. The recently wetted sand provides…
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I had gotten quite comfortable in Panaji, learning to do the sweaty walk over the hill to the main town for lunch and business and taking breakfast, cappuchino, drinks and so on in the old town. I was so much at home that inertia had set in and the idea of going off to one…
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++ I see that Donny Trump wants to have his image on a dollar coin. I’ve seen this BS before… Here’s the then sitting president of Sri Lanka, Rajapaksa in 2015, on his new money bearing his image and evidently raising the flag at Iwo Jima. My reaction… the mark of the dictator. He bankrupted…
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Massive changes in 15 years. Again arrived in the dark and was overcharged for a fairly long cab ride to the capitol, Panjim/Panaji. I had been in this town twice before and got a hotel in the same neighborhoods. In 1985 was the first time and 2011 later. The changes over those years were small,…
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+ Arrived in the severely polluted metropolis at around 2AM. Why my return left at 11:40 at night I have no idea. Hundreds of passengers from numerous flights queued up for hours to pass through customs and finally get their visa stamped. Left the airport at 4:30 AM, got a not very nice hotel and…
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The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal TaoThe name that can be named is not the eternal nameThe nameless is the origin of Heaven and EarthThe named is the mother of myriad things I’ve come on a site which has dozens of translations of the Tao Te Ching. This has absolutely nothing…
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