Well, I get the prize for the first to have the full Delhi experience - Delhi belly! Who will be next?
The Tigri ladies are doing thir best to improve our appearance- obviously painty tee shirts are not 'a la Mode'. It seems that nosooner do you sit down on the carpet or bench than someone offers to paint your nails, give you a bindi or drape you in jewellry. I now have a complete set of bling- necklace, ankle brcelets, toe rings and bracelets. It was a bit like Cinderella- watching the team trying to force their hands into Indian width bracelets!

on a serios note, some of the people we meet are overcoming such odds. We met one student, now at Delhi Uni, who shared that his father is alcoholic, starting drinking in the morning and then abusing the family. He has not been drunk for the past 2 months. How the students mange to study in these conditions i cannot imagine.

walking round the lanes we met another student in her home. The room at the back had one bed where all 9 of the family slept. A ladder went upp to the roof and this is where the student studied. She also taught some chidren each dayto earn some money- about 100 rupees a month (£1.40). Asha has taken all the girls shopping befor starting uni and bought them salwaar, shoes etc so they fitted in better.

Next home had a room at the front for father-in-law, complerte with hookah pipe. Mum was pregnant and lived with the family in a room at the back. She had not had any ante-natal care and couldn;t be persuaded to have this, her third baby, at hospital. She said the doctors would scold her and beat her.Then father-in-law came in with the 3 year old boy who had typhoid. They said all their money goes on medicine for him.