Today I ran into a friend from the Center Guest House in Auroville. Catalin is here in Kathmandu getting his Indian Visa. Last summer we both were at the Center Guest House at the same time and had some good conversations about Europe. Today when I asked him about his opinion about the cash crunch in the Global Market, he did not offer any. Obviously, it is going to be a difficult situation for both the Euro and the Dollar because of Dollar shortage. Too many $'s being spent on Iraq and the Olympics; the net result being that the whole world will be cash short for one year. I also told him about my unpleasant experience in Delhi with the Exit Visa Officer. In fact, we talked about it at length so I was sure I had told him, word for word, what had transpired in Delhi. He said that "Border" Officers will always have this power over a person like myself; it is theirs to say "yes" or "no"; nothing about what is right or wrong, just yes or no. I, of course, had always felt that Indians could be fair minded about matters like this, but I am in the process of possibly changing my mindset about this whole thing. Maybe, Indians are too caught up in their own trip to care about the rest of us. This makes them very questionable personnages, indeed. Anyway, my friend said to "think it over good" before I come to my own conclusion about this. I know that I experienced the last exiting days as strange and out of context with the rest of my last 3 years travelling around India.
These are my thoughts for today.
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