"All the monastics living at the temple get up at 3.30 am, there's a morning ceremony of lamps, and they sing devotional songs and meditate, then we have a philosophical lecture witha vegetarian meal, then it's a working day for everyone" says Gauri Das.
Other countries took note of the fact that policies can no longer be modeled on June Cleaver greeting her husband and children at the end of the daywithameal and a smile.
As he struggled to believe his hotel was re-opening at long last, Mohamed Toure told me that, in the last few months, had only been able to afford one mealadaywith his family.
The boy told the police how the day began with he and his friends taking a bus to the Bluewater shopping centre and having ameal at McDonald's before returning to Erith.