Vitor visited colleagues Kothawala, Mishra and Sriramkumar at Chennai (where he stayed at the Bose Einstein guesthouse within the wonderful premises of the IIT Madras institute) and delivered the Chandrasekhar Lecture. Afterwards he lectured at the ICTS Program Beyond the Horizon: Testing the black hole paradigm in Bangalore, organized by Sumanta Chakraborty and Sudipta Sarkar. The ICTS School had a vibrant participation from all, and led to exciting discussions and brainstorming with all participants, regarding the potential of strong field gravity. He also presented a group seminar and discussed with the group of Parameswaran Ajith and Prayush Kumar. Finally, he delivered a Colloquium in IUCAA in Pune, hosted by Naresh Dadhich. Below is a picture of the Chennai guesthouse and above is a group photo of the ICTS school.