We tour the new Cummins Engine Plant Phaltan...

is a Professor at the college here in Phaltan....you can see tham behind him. This is a man that beams with pleasure when talking about his four children.

The Engine

We tour the Kamble Family Farm.

Kamble Farm Wheat

Kamble Farm Sugar Cane...Dr. Kamble leading us through the farm land...

Kamble Farm Beans and Cilantro

Madhuri carrying sugar cane.

Some of the flowers on the Kamble farm.

Sonali, holding one of the many gifts that we have recieved from this family. Sonali is in college studying to become a doctor of dentistry.

mother, Madhuri, is a lovely woman. Her smile is quiet and inviting. She is graceful and has been a pleasure to be with. It is clear that she loves children.

Madhuri calling the children over for a picture...they are delighted. This is the road that runs in front of the new Cummins plant...these roads are all being vastly expanded from two lanes (...two lanes being the size of one American lane...) to six lanes. The children walking home from school often walk just off the road...you can see their heads on the left side of the picture...so they came popping out of the ditch to join the picture.

mother is so pleased that the children are pleased.

The little girl in the yellow dress was not overly pleased with us....she backed away as I approached with her eyes fixed on my face. I gave her as much room as possible as we made our way through the narrow walkway.No amount of smiling from me gave her any reassurance.

Grandmother and Grandfathers Village....some of the neighbors.

I think if we stayed long enough we could have had a photo of the whole village gathered...which I would have enjoyed.

The little girl in yellow, just barely visiable in the lower left hand corner, is staring at Bruce....she is very unsure about him....no smiles from her :)