Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
We sit on the roof, smell of burning plastic in the air. The sun is intense, bright rays toasting our white feet. A light breeze blows across the peppers drying on a stained blue tarp. Across the street, behind the cinder-block, electrified barbed-wire fence, earth movers tear out trees and ...
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
I've been in India for four weeks, and it's hard for me not to wonder about all the great things in this country I didn't get to see. Varanasi, Jaipur, Calcutta, the beaches at Goa, the tea plantations in Assam, the tea plantations in Kerala, the tea plantations in Darjeeling. ...
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
It happened again. Thursday, while I was wandering through the Lalbagh Gardens in Bangalore, three college students from Kochin stopped me and asked if they could take my picture. I asked why they wanted to take my photo, but they didn't answer. They stood with their arms around me, smiling, ...
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
As promised, a guest post from M.
Mornings are my favorite time of day in Bangalore. I start the day with a sweet cup of coffee served in a tiny espresso cup and then climb into an auto rickshaw waiting outside the MFR. The ride to BBH sums up all of ...
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Having spent way too much money to have my laundry cleaned in Delhi, I shall perform penance by washing my own clothes for the rest of the trip. I found a soap called Surf Excel, which turns the hard water soft. The bucket in the shower is a great washtub ...
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
This is the Solar Eclipse, taken with the iSight and then dramatically retouched because the photo was so blown out by the monitor flash that it was barely visible. Café Coffee Day is a little like being back in the states. When I'm in here, it's like I'm not in ...
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
On a day that I thought I had to myself, the medical staff wound up leaving the hospital early (read: 9:30 AM). We met for coffee and chatting at the Indian Starbuck's, Cafe Coffee Day, where young lovers go to meet away from prying Indian eyes. Perhaps it's okay for ...
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
I'm sitting in a Cafe Coffee Day coffee shop on New B.E.L. Road, my first day of trying to write in this crazy, contradictory country. It is both more advanced and more backwards than Sri Lanka. Dirtier and yet more technologically advanced. More crowded, wealthier, and yet so many poor ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
We had some fun times at Mayuri yesterday. If you've been keeping up, you already know about the cleaning that I had to do on the day we arrived. The bathrooms leave a lot to be desired. Our room still smells like mothballs, despite the four sticks of incense I ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Yesterday was Holi in India, a day in which people douse each other with water and brightly colored dyes. I went walking to find some colorful characters, and found a few. One such group, four youngsters enjoying a little Holi fest on a quiet street.
They allowed me to snap a ...
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