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In India, every day is a surprise… “Expect the unexpected”, I may have said this before, but it is so true. Since we are living in Trivandrum for a while now, we have the opportunity to experience some of the many festivities. Onam already seems some time ago, and last Monday we celebrated the anniversary of Gandhi. As Anneke noted, it is strange to think that we do that together with about 1/6th of the world population. In between these two festivities, there were some more processions, which we only saw by coincidence, but that were equally nice to see: with people dressed up in their best traditional Kerala clothes, procession vehicles (beautifully decorated trucks with statues, which have to drive backwards all the time) and some elephants…