I started my tabla lessons today. We learned "na", "ghe", and "da", although I spent the better part of an hour just trying to get the basic hit. Learning an instrument is never as fun as actually playing it. Dolly had her singing lesson at the same time, so I got to listen to her first attempts to sing on key in front of an audience.

On Sunday we went to lunch with some visitors. They are from the Tata Trust and part of their management program, and they are here for 6 weeks. They spend a year visiting different parts of the Tata empire as training, and after that they are placed into permanent jobs. They have the phone numbers of two different auto drivers who they can call up for rides. Dolly and I usually just walk to the main road and grab who happens to be there.

On the ride over we saw preparations for yet another festival. We asked the driver what the occasion was, and he didn't know. He said something about how different castes have different celebrations. The festivals are really starting to border on ridiculous - they've been going on for two months, and now they're so many that people don't even know what they all are.