Naresh: mmm.. Mangoes !

Posted 03:18 AM, June 18, 2006, by nareshr

So.. the Mango tree in my house which was planted when I was in middle school by our now very old Gardener has given its first set of fruit ! And its delicious.. almost as good as the expensive varieties crowding the stores now... i'm in Mango heaven :-)

Its actually the one advantage of coming to India in the summer. The weather is about 95 deg and humid, and the hospital i'm working in for my project is about 110 deg and humid inside (no air con)..Actually walked through the labor ward today with my friend (a recent graduate), and the women were writhing in labor on these metal beds in a long row with a hole in the middle and a bucket underneath to catch the "products of conception" beyond the child.. quite sad.. but then again there were like 15 doctors and an ultrasound machine and people taking care of them in that gunk and filth, so it wasnt a totally bad picture after all..

Home is fun, but all my friends are working in the booming software industry, so very little time to hang out.. a few of them have recently left for Atlanta, Boston, Paris, etc. and the numbers in India of my batchmates are going south very quickly.

Trav scholars work began today, but i'll be able to post more once i'm going full swing later this week

cheers everyone !

~Naresh

Comments

Glad to hear you made it to India and are already all settled in... not that I'm surprised. Keep the news coming about your traveling scholars project as well as your hospital tours and mango trees.

The fruit here wonderful as well, definitely a highlight, and I can't get enough of the mangoes either.

Comment by: Lena at June 18, 2006 07:15 AM