India

I am planning a trip to India. Everything I read speaks to the contrasts found in India. I noticed this article, "Book now for the flight to nowhere" over the weekend. A man bought a non-functioning plane and uses it to provide entertainment to people who might never be able to ride in a plane. It's funny since although I like traveling I wouldn't really want to sit in a plane for fun - although I can imagine wanting to if I never had. I guess to some degree we all want something we can't have.

The other article that caught my attention was "The Ink Fades on a Profession as India Modernizes". It was a story about a gentleman who used to be employed as a free-lance letter writer. As you can imagine as literacy improves, cell phones become ubiquitous and email and txt msg is more prevalent his chosen work is shrinking. I am hoping I can find someone like this who will either a) write a letter home for me or b) allow me to write some letters for his customers.