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Kushti Wrestling in India, Part 2

Everything seemed to take more time than it did elsewhere, which taught me that the trick to coping was to make as few plans as possible and just accept that things will happen when they happen.

Example: Traffic in Delhi was like nothing I’d ever seen, and that greatly reduced the number of activities I could expect to complete in a single day. The roads were clogged with cars, bikes, pedestrians and cows. Holy and revered, cows are allowed to roam everywhere, and it would be unthinkable to interfere with them.

While driving, I found that it’s normal to have repeated fender benders during the course of a single day.

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