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India Days 7 and 8
Day 7 is a recovery day. The hostel owner gives us a basket of paints and invites Samara to paint the female dorm wall. A vibrant mandala comes to life from her fingertips. I marvel as I always do, even more so now given the fact that she is using a rolled up sock and cotton discs as paint brushes. She sketches me a mandala template and with my wobbly hands, I tentatively fill it in with gobs of oil paint, which Samara wisely avoids. I stink of turpentine until I shower.
As night falls, we're in the streets, foraging for food. Samara must by all means have her third straight meal of momos. Our momo vendor's face lights up knowingly as we approach. The enormous pan sizzles ferociously as he throws the perfect measurements of spices and chopped veg in. A mist of aromatic masala heaven engulfs him.
On the stoop of his restaurant, we sit and await our meal. A herd of little eyes surround us. One boy stands 5cm away from Samara's face, arms clasped unapologetically behind his back as he stares unblinkingly at her.
The next day, we change hostels. Bags packed and affairs in order, we wait downstairs for Sabir, Salim's workmate, to come and fetch us for family chai before we leave. We meet 20 of his modest family members, and endure an excruciatingly awkward half hour of eating the spread of food they so graciously bring us while they all watch, smiling radiantly at us the entire time. Eating in front of them during Ramadan feels cruel, but they seem to find genuine joy somehow in this selfless hospitality, regardless.
At our new hostel, we settle briefly before setting out to hunt for beers for Samara and a cobbler to resize fake leather shoes I was scammed into buying a few days ago. 6km later, we return, drenched in sweat and caked in dust. Beer run, a great success. Shoes, turned away with disapproving, pitying eyes and head wobbles.
We sit under the fan now, puffing away at biddies, bellies stuffed with chicken tikka takeout and gallons of water. We've mapped out our remaining route for the next couple of weeks: Pushkar,Jodhpur, Udaipur, and then Goa. Now, Samara is sketching away with calm, quiet strokes at a picture she will paint on a hostel wall in the next couple of days. With this, she earns us a free night at the hostel. Ah, the perks of travelling with an artist. I play mini-agent, and purse my lips in thought and furrow my brow pensively as I discuss the space she will paint with the manager.
In the late hours, I contemplate a shower, as I sit in my own humid vapours, listening to the distant sound of tuk-tuk and bike horns disrupting the hum of the city's a million and one running fans. And I slap at the 10th hungry mosquito.
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