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Slow Boat Down the Ganges Update 16 Today has been a quiet day. I did look at some of the stuff that I needed to take for the expedition. The gear that came back from the survival Course was unpacked and laid out. The kind of stuff required for the two activities are very different,…

Slow Boat Down the Ganges Update 15 As you can see, I have been off writing for the past ten days. It is because I have been not only out of town, but out of civilisation. Camped out in the folds of the Padampuri forest, near Bhimtal town in Uttarakhand. I was conducting a survival…

Slow Boat Down the Ganges Update 14 Over the last couple of days I’m straddling two boats … pun unintended. The first boat, of course, is the slow boat, while the second is the wilderness survival Course starting in three days. All my bags were packed keeping A SLOW BOAT ON THE GANGES in mind….

Slow Boat Down the Ganges Update 13 The day I was waiting for dawned about two o’clock this afternoon when the new solar generator I had ordered was delivered. I was very pleasantly surprised as I unboxed it and the package came out. The generator is light, I mean light. Particularly when I compare it…

Slow Boat Down the Ganges Update 12 Now that Mr Gandhi is involved a little more directly in this expedition, let me take the opportunity to take a look at an initiative that has been taken by successive governments, but in a more aggressive way by the current government led by Mr Narendra Modi. The…

Slow Boat Down the Ganges Update 11 It is still pelting down. The rain was unique as far as Delhi is concerned. Very heavy rain, very loud thunder and a weather that is very “monsoony”, very unlike what Delhi experiences. Also, there is information that the Ganga in Uttarakhand and western Uttar Pradesh is flowing…

Slow Boat Down the Ganges Update 10 Today was a relatively quiet day, though some things did get done. For one, two more kilos of mashed potatoes are in the dehydrator. The chicken is done and packed. I want to dehydrate some hamburger and carry that in addition to the chicken. Will get that done…

Slow Boat Down the Ganges Update 9 Finally it is September and we are now into days. Exactly 19 days to go before A SLOW BOAT ON THE GANGES launches. No more months to go, there’s a long time before launch, there’s still time, it is now down to days, a little over two weeks….

Slow Boat Down the Ganges Update 8 You know what? There is still a month to go before the expedition is launched. At least till tomorrow when we will be counting down the days. I am still in August and the expedition launches in September. Long time yet to go. Different countdown status starts tomorrow….

Slow Boat Down the Ganges Update 7 The dehydration process, particularly the onions, is taking much longer than I envisaged. While the onions still continue to dehydrate after almost 30 hours, I decided to put the rest of the food kit together. The list, as of now, looks like so… Beverages Coffee – sachets, dairy…