Navi,

Good to see you here. Yes, what is happening in India is extremely sad and it hurts to have been there seeing the worst happen over the past four decades and more. My father owned a house in the hills at Kodaikanal and I have fond memories of the place. We would go there as children to see tadpoles swimming about in a stream that ran through the property and it was a nice place to hunt boar in the days when hunting was allowed. They would come into the garden to eat fruit that fell from the heavy branches of the trees and rotted on the grass and it was quite easy to get to 20 yards of them and hit them with a 12 bore loaded with ball.

About ten years or so ago we sold the place and it now has a resort. The stream that we used to go to as children has been covered up and sewage flows through it into the lake. I have decided that that is a place that I shall never visit again.

The tragedy is that this has been happening all over the country.