I am very sad to head off from my first hosts, Ram and Sivagami, who have been so lovely and caring for me. I will also miss their two daughters, Kastori and Lachsmi, who always had a smile on their face and were keen to talk! If putting up with me for a whole week wasn’t enough, they kindly gave me a lovely silk dress shirt for the wedding and an intricately painted bookmark. They also gave me a lovely Rudraksha chain which will protect me from bad ailments and relieve me from stress.
I have been completely overcome with happiness over how kind my host family have been and the effort they have gone to in order to give me an authentic Indian experience. I wish the family all the best for the future and will definitely be keeping in touch! Many thanks for everything that you have done for me.
I have struggled to blog much this week but other things I have done are jumping into a moving metro train (after Sivagami’s encouragement!), eating vast quantities of Indian food as well as ash (no one other than the priest who gave this to me could understand why I did this!), visiting temples and also sampling the merchandise of small market stalls.
I also completed my first vocational visit of the GSE trip. Here I had a tour of a large truck manufacturing plant, which enjoyed 35% market share (India). I was taken aback by the mammoth investment in this plant and the amount of automation of the manufacturing process. To give you an idea, one shop contained approximately 150 CNC milling machines, another had Fanuc controlled robots for operations as simple as chamfering. Similarly accreditation to ISO 14001 and well developed management of materials, inventory and the workforce were impressive. The development of the mantra preached by the senior management were also little different to what I have experienced in Europe!
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