We had an interesting time yesterday.  One of our friends was out shopping in Chennai.  While she was in a shop a man picked up a large rock and threw it through the back window of her Land Cruiser.   People nearby (remember, everything in India is a spectator sport) grabbed him.  Our friends driver exchanged some heated words and maybe a few blows.   The crowd roughed him up a bit while they waited for the police to arrive.  Once the police arrived they really worked him over with their walking sticks.   He was still able to walk, as they let him go and followed him home.  Once they knew where he lived they arrested him.   The police said the man had been throwing rocks at the US consulate earlier in the day.   I guess he has a gripe against America and saw a non-Indian woman and decided a rock was a form of free speech.

I was pleased with the response this episode received from the more impressionable an alarmable among us, i.e. Sarah.   She wasn't alarmed at all.   I think that a few months ago this would have been very threatening to her and would have caused a lot of anxiety.   It is very good to see her getting more comfortable here.

No comment on the vigilante justice....