The rest of the day was very leisurely and we enjoyed the luxury and lack of dust. Irith arrived around 1pm and it was great to catch up - we have not met in many years, although we more or less kept up on major news via email and such. They have been living here for 1.5 years already and will probably stay for at least one more year.
After lunch we had a short stroll in the hotel's neighborhood which is very affluent - lots of beautiful villas, no cows or cow dung on the streets and no beggars either (but there were about 15 tuc-tuc drivers who were trying to offer us their services and were hard to shake off).
Avi had a whole team of fans for the talk - Sumana and the children, Irith and ourselves but the talk was very well received by others as well. I have heard Avi give many talks, but I have never seen such an engaged audience - the questions (some of them rather aggressive, but in a friendly way) kept coming until Jaikumar had to forcibly announce that no more questions will be taken (and then agreed to one more as the person was so insistent he has to ask it...).
It had started to pour during that time (rather late in the season and quite surprising). So we went to the hotel and ate there again - I cannot remember ever eating 3 consecutive meals in a hotel!
Was wonderful to sleep in nice soft and clean beds. Would have been perfect if we could figure out how to turn off the light over our bed. This room has about 20 light switches, none of which controls this light. I think we'll have to call for help tonight - how embarrassing...
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