After enjoying family life with Daisy and Samy in Chennai for several days, Samy and I are heading off to Madurai and beyond to visit some of the projects he is managing as the director of the Centre for Culture and Development (CCD), an NGO working to improve the lot of poor rural folk in Tamil Nadu. I had met Samy through my search on CouchSurfing for possible local NGO partners for a new organisation of which I am a founding member, WillOurWorld.
We bought two tickets on the night train from Chennai to Madurai on a waiting list basis. When we checked our ticket status on the day of travel, we found that only Samy’s ticket had been verified as the train has been overbooked. What to do? Continue reading
missives from the subcontinent 