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journey to Jabalpur flight to Delhi was delightful. Thai Airlines do not 9uarantee to transport you to Heaven, but their airhostesses do their best. Nothing, in my experience, fuels fantasies of the middle-aged male better than the aPproach of a slim, curvaceous Siamese beauty in a hip-hugging sari, delicately proferring an orchid and a ^arm smile full of Eastern promise. I was still up in the c'ouds when we landed. Delhi airport, by contrast, is not like Heaven. It is, I SuPP0se, marginally better than Purgatory, but there's ^ore delay. Several Jumbo-jets had landed in quick Accession around midnight, and hundreds of travellers j^ere crushed together in the humid Immigration Hall. milled around hopefully, as one does at those mammoth cocktail parties where there's no food or drink and nobody wants to know you. There were a few ragged ^'eaners who sqatted on the floor and occasionally 'apped a cloth at a grimy wall. There were also several 9roups of unshaven, cadaverous soldiers in long shabby 9reatcoats, who carried rifles and puffed furtively on their cigarettes, but these were the only signs of authority. Eventually I found that part of the crowd had formed ltself into a queue, which I joined. Fifteen minutes later, I Cached a small table, behind which sat a bespectacled, white-bearded Sikh, clad in baggy shorts, khaki turban and a pullover with holes in it. He held out his hand and I jjave him my passport. "Vair is your form? You must Jave a form". He sighed wearily and with an airy wave 'Srnissed me back to the centre of the human mael^tr?nn. After eddying around for another few minutes, I ?cated another small table, behind which sat a plump ac|y in a sari. I asked politely if she knew where I could
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