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After super clean Singapore, Madras felt more like the real world with a normal amount of dirt, garbage and odours.
Another view of Mount Road.
Mount Road appears less prosperous further south-west.
Oxcarts are slow but they are reliable and cheaper than trucks.
Markets are always exciting places where the lifebeat of real people can be seen and felt.
An Hinduist school was also worth visiting.
Finally, the outskirts reach the countryside. I visited an interesting buffalo milk farm but unfortunately did not take pictures.
From Madras, I spent two days in New Delhi to pay a courtesy call on an Indian colleague of the National Oil and Gas Corporation but I unfortunately took no photos.
This is a very poor photo of the Gateway of India but it is the only one I took during that trip. You can see a better picture of this place in my 2000 travelogue.
I stayed a couple of days at the fashionable Taj Mahal Hotel next to the Gateway of India.
I took avantage of this stop in Bombay to visit the ancient Hindu caves on Elephanta Island.
Below left, the stairs leading up to the caves in the hills.
Below right, a fine bas relief decorating the entrance to one of the caves.
The entrance of another cave.
A holy "Lingam" venerated by the followers of the Shaivaite variety of Hinduism. Click here for more on Hindu beliefs.
