On Friday we drove out to see a house that Namita's parents are building near a lake about 3 hours away from Mumbai. Once you get out of the city (an hour drive with traffic) the whole landscape competely changes and you find yourself surrounded by lush green mountains. It was absolutely beautiful and peaceful, such a stark contrast to the chaos of Mumbai. In order to get to the house you drive through a few Indian villages, which were amazing to see. The women were wearing vibrant colored saris in purples, yellows, blues, pinks and more, and many were traveling along the side of the road balancing their things on their heads. I wish we would have gotten some pictures, but it felt a bit intrusive to point our cameras out at them, so we just took the moment in. We passed by many houses that were patched together with a combination of corrugated steel, wood, straw and cow dung. Most shocking was to see that many houses also had satellite TV dishes perched upon their roofs. I guess no home is complete without TV, even in such rural surroundings.
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