What with all the moving around and looking for a home, work got left behind last week. Now it’s back to the grind. I’ve found a translator/transcriber to help me with my interviews. Transcription of tape to text costs about half the Canadian price here, which is good considering all the hours of tape I have. I feel a little strange about outsourcing to India, but I guess since I’m living and working here right now, it’s not technically outsourcing. Anyway, it’s a slow process of setting up meetings and trying to make contact with people, but it’s coming along. I have to keep reminding myself of the Delhi Rule: Never, never try to do more than one thing in a single day. It doesn’t matter how small a task might seem to be, generally you can only expect to accomplish one per day. On the rare occasion you can do more than one thing, count it as a very special blessing.
In the meantime, I decided to check out the India International Trade Fair that’s on this week in Delhi. The theme this year is food processing, so I was naturally pretty excited about the whole thing. It’s a massive exhibition showing and selling everything from new machines for making extruded snack foods, to handloom weaving, makeup, tractors, and “as seen on TV” personal massagers, vegetable choppers, and exercise gadgets. And all of these things were mixed together in the exhibition halls with no apparent order to it all. Among the odd collection of things for sale were some fabulous textiles (I can never resist!), and a lot of information about the food processing industry. What was really fascinating to me was the sheer number of people. I know, I’ve spent enough time in India now that crowds, of all things, should never be a surprise to me. But, it’s a trade show, and it seems to be a major activity for the general public.
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