Dehra Dun (Uttaranchal) - March 25th, 2007

I went to the north west side of town (several kilometers away), to visit the Forest Research Institute Museum, which is located in a 500 hectare park and the main building is one of the Raj's grandest buildings, bigger than Buckingham Palace.
It is a red-brick colossus with Mughal towers and Roman Columns with many passages very elegant and breezy. Gardens and hundreds of trees are all over the area ith lots of birds and peacefulness, and surprinsingly, very very clean. Six halls have displays on every aspect of forestry in India.
One of the students I spoke with told me it is the biggest and the number one University of Forestry in the country but he wasconcerned about the future of forestry in India since there is so much corrupted policy with government and affects most aspects of life, and even though he loves forestry and is one of the best students there, his career doesn't shine a bright future.
In the way out of this wonderful area, an old Indian tribal lady was crying becaues the Government just cut off her pension. I triedto give her some money and she refussed it saying with gestures that it was a bigerproblem than that, since that was the money she needed to eat every day. Few minute later, an Indian man is offering me marriage, so I thought is time I get back to my room to watch more movies!!