Bangalore, India was a place with a lot of contradictions. There were many new buildings going up with interesting scaffolding (shown in the slide presentation) and right alongside of them would be empty lots with cardboard shacks, or tents, where people lived. The air was dirty with dense smog. Traffic was chaotic and dangerous with just as many motorcycles as cars. It was a free-for-all when it came to driving and I don’t know why they even bothered painting traffic lines in the roads; whether it was for going in one direction or between two way traffic no one paid any attention to them while driving, continuously honking their horns. There were no sidewalks or crossways for people, so they were in the streets along with the sacred cows. These sacred cows were treated like street people left to rummage in the garage for food. This, to me, was not any way to honor anything sacred. There was no planning for the city. I was told there were many lakes at one time, but several of them have been filled-in for the haphazard expansion of the city. Occasionally, there were areas of natural beauty within the land itself, including many coconut and flowering trees, but their surroundings detracted from this. With all of this, astonishingly enough, real estate prices were several times more expensive than New York City in many instances.

This is a place that could really see tremendous benefits from the implementation of The Venus Project.

On the other hand, the dedicated people we met – had a good understanding of the direction of The Venus Project, were truly amazing. There was little exposure of The Zeitgeist Movement or The Venus Project in India and the few members were scattered throughout the large country, but this did not stop them. They did so many innovative things to make this lecture a success. Many people traveled under unpleasant conditions for over 24 hours to get to the lecture and had to go right back the next day. The Zeitgeist Movement’s India Chapter membership and Facebook rose by the hundreds due to the lecture and all their hard work. We deeply appreciate all their dedication and hard work.

Roxanne Meadows
www.thevenusproject.com