25! Token number 25!
There'll be more to come on this one, but suffice it to say that a day spent amidst the chaos of Indian bureaucracy is, well, practical in matters of the spirit. Patience, that all-too-often-forgotten virtue, becomes strong like bear; soulpower exhausted like salmon.
Swimming up a multi-directional, quasi-fourth-dimensional stream of directives (or lack thereof) reminds one of the biopolitik: legal impartiality, blindness, din, and sadomasochism.