jai hind.

(jai hind-victory to thee)
i may or may not have risen from the dead this past week...
after being completely annihilated by my giardia medication and spending five days in a blur of only wicked hallucinations and coma like sleep, I managed to pull myself together just well enough to make it up to school for the independence day celebration on monday. last year (august 15) i featured a whole blog post about the history behind the day, please reference it for specifics on the festivity.
for a brief and very nonspecific overview, here is what the party invite would look like:
when: august 15 (1947)
who: EVERYBODY and their mothers...
what: celebrating india's freedom from british rule
where: in every single alleyway, slum, school and train
why: because well shit, didn't india suffer enough?

the festivities included loads of delicious indian food, vivid colors, traditional dress, great sufi music, and apart from my inability to hold conversations on account of the meds, it all went surprisingly well.
i think that for this one, the pictures will be able to do most of the talking...

holy dosa

bhutan