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trip to India. Part III: Delhi (market, mosque, Qtub Minar)

After a brief visit to the place where Gandhi was cremated, where we met with a feverish crowd of people singing praises to Shiva, our guide asked if we wanted to tour the Old Delhi market, and we, naïve, said yes.

From that moment began an amazing journey of one-hour drive mounted on a tricycle through the streets of the market. The best I can do is describe a little what I saw there, and catch a few pictures for you will see it for yourselves: is a neighborhood of narrow, dirty and narrow, and low houses linked together by a tangle of cables. The tents are rectangular rooms without doors or windows that open directly onto the street, and they sell everything from carpets, fabrics for clothing, pottery ... There are butchers where gender is exposed vivo (goats, chickens), optical colorful posters that advertise on "Computerized eye-testing or bars where food sold in bags that I can not classify. There are a lot of people, many carrying objects from one place to another, by hand or in cars, copper plates, cages of chickens, bricks, bundles on their heads ... In addition to people and cars, there are tricycles, Bikes, dogs and cows that walk on their free will, and should not be disturbed.

Taped to the market there is a mosque, the largest in India, as our guide. It also tells us that the majority religion in India is Hindu, and Muslims are a minority, 14% of the population, approximately. That, in a country that has about 1100 million inhabitants, means that some 154 million Indians are Muslims, having cities and entire states where Islam is the religion of the majority, like Uttar Pradesh, which is where the Taj Mahal.

The last trip of the day is to Qtub Minar, an esplanade in gardens where stands a minaret attached to a mosque, apparently one of the oldest in India, built by the early Muslims who came to these lands, subjecting the indigenous inhabitants. In fact, the mosque is built on Hindu temples demolished material, and that gives it a special and unique architecture.

As a final point, that day was New Year's Eve. After an impressive dinner buffet in the hotel, at 12 pm in Spain (4:30 am EDT India) we ate a little container of 12 peeled grapes in syrup that we had brought for the occasion.

The next day we left to continue the circuit. In the next installment, a portrait of rural India, Samode Palace and a look at the city of Jaipur. I hope you do not leave tired because I still have four days of intense experiences to tell.

In my flickr page can see more pictures of the men here.

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I do not understand politics but ... Why not vote

Today on the radio I heard several times that phrase and others that mean same. "I do not understand politics, but ...". You do not know politics. Come on, do not waste time to inform you, as I did not lose in learning about professional football.

So much good, because everyone cares about what he wants. The problem is that it has always been followed by something like "... I voted for so and so, because he has done wrong Somebody's niece" or "Somebody's niece ... I voted for so and so lied.."

to see that I have learned, if you are not interested in politics, why vote? What do you base your vote? You think it's right do your part to elect the government that will govern the social and economic destiny of your country in the next 4 years without Having A reported before at all?

I think not. In this country gives us the right to vote. And we have a duty to carry out this duty to fully and responsibly.

And you, are you informing you of which you vote? "Without inform? Did not you vote? What do you think?

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Tomorrow, as I do for years, will not vote. Why? For the following reasons: First

: I have to whom to vote. There is no party with which I see represented. Those who are to govern, have never had to come just at the end of the month. Never have had to find a floor knowing they had a good chance of going drowned the following years. They have had difficulty finding a decent job with decent wages (indeed, many have not worked in his life.) And as a button. not engaged to ensure my interests but the interests of those who fund them and then are placed on their "advisors" when squeezed political life. I could go on ad infinitum, but with these few examples I think it has become clear. Second

: The population is not serious about the election process. As I mentioned in my last post, most is believed that this is football. Do not read or the election manifestos of the parties they go to vote, nor that of the alternatives. So vote with the information absorbed by the media (go blind). Or directly go to vote blindly choosing (of these and I know several). Third

: I disagree with the law regulating elections ( Organic Law on General Elections ). Blank votes only serve to exclude minority parties, the allocation of seats is the circus, and more things as I describe in another post.

And yes, I have a right to complain. I've been paying taxes every month since 17, so I can complain about how they spend my money.

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morning and football policy

solar was going to a rant as a comment in the post kiko on data manipulation by our political leaders , but I'm going to expound here. He has been

years from that policy in this country seems increasingly football. Here everyone is a party as if it were a team. We have our media stars to which they are encouraged by the street, they ask for autographs, which we touch, we take pictures with them ... We try not to think about all the money they earn stolen or left steal win his cronies. In chats, defend and attack our party to the other, when both are indefensible and attackable.

And all without seeing our reality, which send the boss, big companies continue to increase their economic figures (of course the economy grows, but not exactly that of those who work). And then we sweat it. Nobody reads the manifestos and no matter if they are not met (which is what they always do).

The difference of football and politics, is that in football players alone win, and win political cronies and we all lose. Let's see when we realize and we take a little more seriously. Anyway

. A march. And to complain. This is Spain.