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Year View| Summary| Highlights| Month View| Saturday 13 January 2001 (Day View)

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13.01.2001 – Saturday 13 January – Train – Delhi

• I dozed, slept and lazed all day while my twenty-two hour trip took me to New Delhi Station, and Delhi – back where it all began.

7:30pm

• Lots of police boarded the train and searched everyone, including me, looking for narcotics and explosives. This was scary – these were not the normal SLR rifle carrying police that I was used to; these had small fold-up anti-terrorist looking fibre-stock machine guns and shotguns. I could tell something was wrong – this wasn’t the same Delhi I had left a few months before.

Pahar Ganj

• Well, here I am back in Pahar Ganj, where it all began. I have a 60-rupee room at the optimistically named “Hotel Bright”, where I have paid for tonight. I went straight to the Madaan for food, which is cheap after Goa.

Money

• I changed $US50 traveller’s cheques into 2300 rupees at 46 rupees to the American dollar, and checked my email.

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