O Ranchi!

Our stay in Ranchi was eventful.

Shopkeepers in Ranchi are generally rude - poor service, misleading deliberately, poor service again. We were stopped for carrying a baby bag into a shop and not allowed to enter. We were told that if we wanted to look at cheaper saris we had to stand and could not sit, even with N. Foreign credit cards are not accepted. Just the beginning. We got ripped off by the taxi service.

People are extremely aggressive for money in Ranchi, very much like the old India, but not much like the new India that lives in Delhi or Mumbai. These things were shocks to me; I 'd noticed it in Delhi, people will try to rip you (e.g. taxi drivers taking you to their shops) but the level of customer service is so much better in Delhi that you can forgive them and then go to the shop next door.

People bemoan Bihar, but at least in Patna, there's great service and people are friendly in the shops. My uncle in Patna says that the villagers and thugs in Ranchi have become millionaires overnight when Ranchi became a state capital. I understand him now.

Blah blah blah grumble. I didn't enjoy Ranchi.