Our youths love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority – they show disrespect for their elders and love to chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when their elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up food and tyrannize teachers. — Socrates (circa 400BC)

Posts Tagged ‘kalimpong’

photos from india

top – an old woman peeks out her door in kalimpong middle – a buddhist demon painted on a door bottom – a worker cleans the steam train in darjeeling

photos from india

top – old men, passing time middle – a local handicapped man poses for a portrait bottom – a buddhist demon painted on a door

travel diary day 21

i can’t believe i’ve been in india for 3 weeks … despite everything, time is going so quickly. day 18 – in the morning i got a taxi up to durpin gompa. it’s the biggest gompa in kalimpong and the views are sensational. unfortunately, the entire darjeeling district has been quite hazy for the past [...]

travel diary day 17

day 15 (continued) – the overnight trip to siliguri was great. i slept comfortably for most of the trip.  day 16 - in the morning i woke up because the guy on the bottom bunk was talking so loudly. it turns out that he does everything loudly, when i got up an decided to read my [...]