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but without intimacy. My mind goes blank my eyes vague out towards the terrace windows, conscious only of the sound of my whiskers being scraped. a sensual non-sensual bliss.

[Continued from previous page:] or Perhaps Gollapie is reacting to the bread man because he made a pass at her.

The street-cars are rife with pickpockets. [An] American student tells me he had a money belt strapped tightly under his shirt and it was taken without him knowing it. All his money, passport, airline tickets. My camera bag is slit with a razor in a wide cut in the back and I was unaware of it until the next day. fortunately nothing was taken.

A story goes that the leading pickpocket from Delhi came to Calcutta to test the quality of the local professionals. He rode all day with a 100 Rupie note in his

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shirt pocket. Nothing happened. At the airport that night on the way back to Delhi he meets a friend from the "trade" and berates the abilities of the Calcutta pickpockets. The friend says we're not so dumb that we're going to steal a counterfeit 100 Rupie note. That the note had been taken, examined and put back many times that day without him knowing it.

Moni has a friend, she was traveling on a crowded tram, wedged in between three young girls in brightly colored saries. She happens to glance down and sees a hand removing her billfold from her pocketbook. Because you are in so tightly it is quite possible to see a hand and not know whose it is. She screams. Consternation of passengers. She believes one of the young women has done it. The passengers are reluctant to accuse the women or do anything about it. They look like such nice girls, "They wouldn't be capable of such a thing." The girls make to get out of the tram, but two young men come to the resque [sic.].