As I stepped out of the Bombay Airport Saturday afternoon, I was struck with an overwhelming sense of familiarity. Not familiarity in the sense that my surroundings were recognizable- the busy streets and the tall structures were anything but familiar to me. It was the heat. The hard-core, unbelievable Memphis-style heat that makes you feel like the sky is pushing down on you with a 5-ton weight.
Over the past few days here, that all-too-familiar heat has followed me. However, instead of reminding me of home, it has only heightened the sense of being in a new place.
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