Amidst a whirl of social engagements (of which I dropped the final one of exhaustion), one was a rather ceremonial visit from a relative to thank me for helping his son with his application essays. There is a roaring business in education consultancies these days, people taking lakhs to get children into universities abroad by any means necessary, and he said that when he went to a gun dealer of his acquaintance in Sargodha he found that the gun dealer had diversified into education consultancy – well suited to the American education market no doubt.
We did have an interesting conversation about solar panel and water heating systems. It is remarkable how every house that can afford it has a solar panel array on the roof. It wasn’t last time I was here.
The final social engagement that I dropped was to a banned books reading which just sounded hopeless virtuous and I had a vision of earnest people sitting in a circle reading out books that are banned in America and certainly not here.