Dinner here is an experience.  According to the menu:

"We eat as a family, dinner is served buffet style in the company of our guests, we always have fascinating guests". (they do indeed, not sure what I was doing in such illustrious company) "Dinner includes various vegetable curries, raita, pickles, papadum, rice puri and chapatti" 

The food was wonderful and the company fascinating as promised.

Sitting on a veranda enjoying a cup of tea within minutes of my arrival, I heard a reedy instrument being played and rushed down to the Ghat in time to see a performance by an itinerant snake charmer.   

First out of the bag was an adorable baby hedgehog, (so far so good) soon to be followed by all manner and colours of snakes until the star of the show: the Cobra weaved his way out of a basket.  The charmer charmed and collected his money while his less than charming snakes were quite quarrelsome.

Another day as our small dinner party was breaking up the raucous sounds of Bollywood had me scrambling once more for my camera and rushing outside.  There a large group of men were gyrating to the music as they paraded a statue of the God Kali to a boat.   They rowed out onto the Ganga where Kali was dropped into the water.