Christmas carols wafting through the classrooms and therapy rooms reminded us that Christmas was close. Delegates from all seven of the remote north east Indian states watched tinsel being draped on the courtyard trees as they sipped their sweet Indian tea.  Naturally it was Assam tea as we were in Guwahati the state capital of [...]

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Somewhere nearby in the pre dawn darkness we could feel rather than see the shifting presence of huge beasts. Carried on the still air the unmistakable smell of elephants reached us, then we heard the quiet shuffling and steady breathing. As the light levels slowly increased we could make out the monochrome shapes of half [...]

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Slowly but insistently the level crossing gates dropped in front of us and we stopped with a clear view of the main railway line from Chennai to Delhi. On the other side of the crossing we watched a phalanx of vehicles forming up, across the width of the road with spaces in between filled with [...]

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