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In my previous post I mentioned Dussehra, the biggest Hindu festival of India, which happened to be underway as I arrived in the country. Traveling eastwards, where Darjeeling is located, I fortuitously moved into the epicentre of the celebrations - West Bengal, the "home" of Goddess Durga.

kEverytime I return to India it is as if I have never left. A few moments after emerging from the airport, I am swept into the heat, dust and chaos that feels so familiar that I soon forget there is anything else but that.

Gorbals, my friend from Glasgow, pointed out is a rough part of the city. I was very surprised to hear that. Because 165 year ago Thomas Lipton was born in those very slums and it seems relatively, not much had changed.