Holy Cow and some tidbits....

Cows are holy, but not allowed to roam free in Mumbai.  Loose cows are collected and returned to owners who are fined.  Mumbai is the commercial and financial capital of India and traffic control is part of a modern image.  It is an easy city to navigate.  Forty percent of India's tax revenue is collected from Mumbai.  People from the villages move here to live in slums because its a nice city to live in and there is opportunity.

Three things you need in order to drive in India:  a good horn, good brakes and GOOD LUCK.  I've ridden in the front seat of two cabs and the luck is for real.

Professional Women:  Mumbai has many professional women as do other metropolitan areas of India.  Three of the top five banks are headed by women.  Sujita, our director in Mumbai has the same education degrees that I have and she has always worked professionally. She is about my age.  She runs the USIEF office in Mumbai and places students like those we saw yesterday in American programs abroad and she also works with Fulbright Scholars.  Her husband is very supportive of her work, but her 95  year old father-in-law who lives in her home is not.  She makes him food before she leaves for work but he complains about her leaving.  His daughter however is a professional woman and he doesn't complain about that. They of course have servants who are there during the day. Every two income family needs a couple to make things work:) Sujita just tells her father-in-law that she is an independent woman. She manages her own money.  Her son is studying physics at Harvard and her daughter is a yoga instructor.  Both pathways are fine with Sujita.