5.24 – Night train to Goa
Anyone speaking in an elevated voice on the train is selling food or chai. Speaking of food, we’ve been completely vegetarian so far, and it’s very easy to be veg here. However, it's rare to find raw vegetables, which I'm currently craving. Most foods have veggies cooked into a sauce/gravy or chutney, or battered and fried -- the majority of which have been delicious.
A thought on the train: after thousands of years of burning our garbage, now it’s cancerous. Plastic, when burned, releases dioxin, a known and banned carcinogen. Whereas previously (and still, but more rarely), food has been served in leaves shaped into bowls and ceramic cups for chai, you could dispose of it on the side of the tracks and soon it would biodegrade. Now, evidence of plastic’s longevity is everywhere - on the roadside, in rural farm fields, in the stomachs of stray dogs, and burnt and sent up as toxic fumes.
Anyone speaking in an elevated voice on the train is selling food or chai. Speaking of food, we’ve been completely vegetarian so far, and it’s very easy to be veg here. However, it's rare to find raw vegetables, which I'm currently craving. Most foods have veggies cooked into a sauce/gravy or chutney, or battered and fried -- the majority of which have been delicious.
A thought on the train: after thousands of years of burning our garbage, now it’s cancerous. Plastic, when burned, releases dioxin, a known and banned carcinogen. Whereas previously (and still, but more rarely), food has been served in leaves shaped into bowls and ceramic cups for chai, you could dispose of it on the side of the tracks and soon it would biodegrade. Now, evidence of plastic’s longevity is everywhere - on the roadside, in rural farm fields, in the stomachs of stray dogs, and burnt and sent up as toxic fumes.
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