Along the way during our travels I took some quick snaps of interesting cultural differences. The cows enjoy grazing through garbage together with dogs, pigs, goats and chickens. In Rajistan we saw cows being fed grasses and grains bought by Hindus to worship the Holy Cow, but elsewhere they were either being herded or left to wander the streets and roads, rummaging. Our driver and all others avoided hitting them and the many dogs who just stand on the road. Although I have seen quite a few dogs limping. The owner at a restaurant we frequent in Bangalore 'Sunny's', donates 10% of his profits to the Protection of Animals Society - so there is hope and Hindus are very kind people and do not intentionally harm animals.
When leaving Jaipur we passed the Bangladeshi refugees still camped in the Muslim part of town. They were apparently shipped there from the camps on the border to do some work but when that finished the Bangladeshi government refused to take them back as they did not have papers so it was claimed that they were Indians trying to get into Bangladesh - how sad.
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