Isywybad

All trips leave traces all.

Some leave sweet memories in my head like a passing breeze on our skin. Others mark us deeply, we change, we transform. It lives with every day. It's hard to get rid of, we really wish it?
India is one!

Alberto Moravia describes this exchange he had on his return from India (The Idea of India):

"So you went to India. Was it good?
- No.
- You were bored?
- No more.
- Whether you're happened there?
- I did an experiment.
- Which one?
- Experience of India.
- And that is what?
- To make the experience of what India.
- That is to say?
- How can I explain? India is India ... "

Yes, the experience of India ... response that seems most relevant, but that seems an old formulation vaporous, orgueuilleuse, ventarde for sure.

I finally answer: No! There is nothing superior to anything in my words, just an inability to describe, tell, share what I have actually lived what I have learned, what I have left.

All this to my greatest regret.

Experience of India is leaving our Cartesian world to enter the world of mysteries, beliefs, strengths ... is to accept that things are not as well and that's stop looking to understand because India is incomprehensible. So paradoxical, so surprising, though ...

Experience of India is to accept that there are no words to describe what we see, lives there. It is accepting of never being able to fully express what is there or not.

I selected and reworked some pictures to try to communicate this nostalgia, melancholy inside me since my trip to India.

I hope they will talk.

Very long list of snuff habits if we stay too long in India. I'm sure you will find. Have Fun ....
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Yesterday, to celebrate the anniversary of our Tambi (younger brother in Tamil) Alban (20 years), we have made various outlets including a cinema. Output more than interesting in India where the atmosphere is very different from our rooms.
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In India, the issues of courtesy are sometimes surprising (but in reality, not that much). Experience ...
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Back on the last weeks of mission. - The days pass and do not look alike, the experiences also. All will not leave a pleasant memory but have lived tell us much, on oneself, on the other, cultural differences and miscommunication that entails.

"What we got here, is a failure to communicate".
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This trip is a few weeks, but following computer problems then the sequence of weeks, I have not taken the time to recover pictures. I dedicate this article and these photos to Pastis, faithful friend of the past few months, thank you for the timeshare, temples visited, bored and faced all the things thou hast eaten ...
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