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The first stop on my grand-ish spring break adventure was Atlanta, GA, to visit some (most) of my study abroad program-mates. We ate, we drank, we lived like kings and queens. Notable highlights were a really sweet potluck dinner in honor of Passang-la, our incredible program coordinator of sorts who is in the [...]
I literally mean this. I am not kidding. This may be the greatest thing to happen to me in quite some time. The actual title of the song is “Mere Rang Mein”, from Maine Pyar Kiya in 1989. Link to mp3, via Our Delhi Struggle, which I will blog about soon [...]
This photo essay depicts the scrappy, entrepreneurial side of the slums of Mumbai. Cobbled together homes sit side-by-side with cottage industries in Dharavi, including some very industrial ones like recycling outfits which together reclaim eighty percent of Mumbai’s plastic, people that grind down paint chips into a powder than can be re-constituted into usable [...]
Since my roommate is spending his evening occupied with unselfconscious creativity, I figure I can do a little better than dredging up interesting photos from flickr. As alluded to in my 4th of July musings, I just finished Interpreter of Maladies, the Pulitzer-winning collection of short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, which I bought on [...]
I’ve been slowly coming to a realization over the last few days, brought about by lots of time to sit around and think and read blogs and some books and think some more. What I’m realizing is how exhausted I am by how politicized everything in Dharamsala is. Everything either relates or is [...]
For those of you that haven’t already heard my sob story, I finally succumbed to the disease-ridden food and water of India and came down with a nasty digestive ailment a few days ago. After a day of sleeping, pooping, and occasionally vomiting, I dragged myself down to Delek Tibetan Hospital (the local Western-style [...]
The big news is that school is (kind of) over: culture paper handed in Wednesday, Tibetan exam taken Thursday, and philosophy papers finished yesterday (was it really yesterday?). And, just like that, another semester is basically finished. We have from now until May 20 for our independent research projects, which is certainly going [...]
Recently, I feel like it’s easy to forget that there are big things happening in the world that are very closely connected to where I am. As the protests and riots of March recede into the past, the media frenzy is quieting down and McLeod now seems more focused on the tourists coming from [...]
How could you find enough leather
To cover the ground?
Having leather on the soles of your sandals
Is the same as covering the whole earth.
Yesterday was our audience with the Dalai Lama. It was, of course, pretty incredible. It’s one thing to see him walk by, standing in a crowd, or, now sitting in the same crowd, to see him sitting in the distance on his big throne, reading from a peja in Tibetan. It’s an [...]
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