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The End of an Internship
My internship is over and I have just posted a new set of pictures from the debriefing in Delhi that reunited six of the seven interns sent to India by the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. The set includes some from the Canadian High Commissioner to India’s crib, a sit-in by Bhopal disaster survivors, multiple draggings of…
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University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad Photos Posted
Within a few weeks from my arrival to the university that was to become my home for the past six months, I began to get a handle on it and realize that it is really just a small village populated by the usual things like laborers, goats, cows, fields and temples, only with more scientists.…
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Belguam Photos Posted
Back in September when I learned that I was going to go to some place in India called Dharwad, it was rare to find anyone who had heard of the place, much have been there. Finally, at my last nineteen day feast in Ottawa a friend’s parents not only knew the place but had visited…
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Ugar Photos Posted
In December I spent a day in a town further North in Karnataka that sold its soul to the sugar industry – sort of like how Macau has to gambling or Ottawa to government. One can assume Ugar was chosen for its name’s similarity to the name of the product in question. I went there…
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Madapur Village Photos Posted
Before I leave it, I am going to post a few sets of photos from the great state of Karnataka like this one of images from the village of Madapur. Back in November before Peter left, we piled into a Jeep with five researchers to sit on the floor of a temple for four days…
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My ridiculous 2004 fasting article
The Baha’i world is now on day twelve of the nineteen day fast. The one nineteenth of the year when we abstain from food and liquids while the sun is up. The other eighteen nineteenths are known to me as my love affair with lunch, arguably one of the three most important meals of the…
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Bangalore Photos: A Photographic Retrospective in Photos of Bangalore
Don’t let the title of this post and your gullibility to anything written in a blog fool you, Bangalore still exists, arguably more now than ever before. But as I am leaving the area soon, I’m not planning on going back to that city in a long time so: Bangalore, you are dead to me now. Presented…
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Ajanta to Jaipur to Delhi to Oblivion
(Journey North Begins, Paris to Bangalore to Dharwad, Dharwad to Belguam to Panchgani, Panchgani to Mahableshwar to Pune to Ajanta) Like a kid in a candy store. After the monks ran out of ideas they started to build the same thing in different sizes. The above two photos should make an optical illusion that is blowing your mind…
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Journey North Begins
During the summer of 2005 I did an internship with the Olinga Foundation in Ghana, West Africa. Most of the time I lived and worked in Accra, the capital city, but I also spent several weeks at the field office in a small town called Bawdie in the Western Region. I was there right after…
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