Chandigarh

We have found the most organized and clean city of India I believe! Chandigarh roads have lines on them and the cars, autorickshaws, cycle rickshaws, buses, bicycles, scooters, motorbikes and pedestrians seem to obey their lanes and the lights! The streets are lined with large trees and green grass and there are many parks and gardens. The city is divided into Sectors that are 1km squared blocks that were thought to contain everything for living. The city is one of the first or the first planned city of India and it shows! There is less caos and although the city is more spread out, it is more peaceful.
Yesterday we spent the day at Sukhna Lake, which has paddleboats that we didnt ride. Then to the rock garden/amusement park and then to the bougainvillea garden. We were pretty pooped after all that. We ate an amazing meal at this really fancy Italian restaurant. We kinda blew our budget on that, but I think it cost us each 6$, so a relative splurge. Today we went to check out the Tagore theatre, and it was a nice, wooden building, but unfortunately there are no shows on tonight. Then we went to the rose garden and smelled the roses and took lots of pictures. We had planned on going to the city museum and the art gallery, but both are closed on Mondays, so our not so well planned plan was ruined.
Tomorrow we head up to Amritsar. We hope to arrive there fairly early and be able to go to the border closing ceremony at the border with Pakistan. Then on Wednesday we will visit the Golden Temple, and Thursday morning we are off to Delhi. We fly to Goa on Saturday. We had thought of going to Agra to see the Taj Mahal on Friday, but it is closed on Fridays, so we will just sightsee in Delhi and catch the Taj on the way back up.
I got my sandals fixed from a shoe maker on the road and today we bought umbrellas. I forgot my raincoat at the farm, so I am without rain protection from the monsoon rains (which were supposed to stop on the 15 of September but dont seem to be letting up much).
Today we ate lunch at a Food Stop outside the Art College and our table was overrun with young students who "secretly" took our photos while we ate. We have contacted 3 farms down south. One in Karnataka, and 2 in Kerala, and it looks like we will be able to visit all 3 if we plan our trip right. 2 are organic farms, one of which is a spice and coffee farm, and the third is a Shakti farm. They grow their organic produce within the jungle so as not to deforest but rather reforest the jungle. That will be neat to be able to compare with the work that Navdanya does.
I'm still hoping to hear back from a few other gender and womens focused NGOs about possible visits, but haven't heard anything yet.