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Merry Diwali
Just when you were thinking that it was really time this blog stopped milking a trip I went on weeks ago now, here is one more set of photos from Panchgani! There are some odds and ends from the trip and plenty of cool ones of the wild Diwali fireworks.
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Return to old house
1997 2007 After hitting my old school during the first day of my visit to Panchgani, next stop along the road was my family’s old house. The plan was to walk up to it, knock on the door and language barrier or no – invite myself in for a self-guided tour.
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The Search for Sureka II
[This the second of a three-part story. Click here to read the first part.] I arrived in Panchgani yesterday morning and took the full self guided Benoit-James Historical Panchgani Tour. That will all be elaborated on later. This post will be about today, which was reserved for the Sureka Search. Read the last post before this one…
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Return to Panchgani
In the 2004 movie Swades, Shahrukh Khan, the ‘King of Bollywood’, stars as the handsome map-loving scientist who returns to India to reunite with his childhood maid. He rents a comically large camper and follows her trail, eventually leading to two women, the object of the original quest and a romantic interest who sings in a very high voice. My…
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Shivalli photos posted
Please proceed to my flickr site for 20 new photos from the very photogenic village of Shivalli. This batch has a number of photos from the inside of two very nice homes I was invited into and some of the most involved captions you will ever see. UPDATE: Shivalli photos now sorted into this set.
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Inamungal photos posted
This little boy asked me to pass this message on to you: “I swear that if you people don’t go to Samuel Benoit’s flickr site right now to look at the other photos from my village you had better go and lock your doors, because I’m coming after you. That is all.” UPDATE: For your…
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What exactly it is that I am doing here
Before I left Canada, my stock answer to the question was that I was going to be contributing to research pertaining to water quality and agricultural sustainability, but further questions would force me to admit that I didn’t know much more beyond that statement. Well, it turns out I had no idea how little I…
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Learned things
The following is a list of some of the many things have I learned, most of them the hard way, during my journey to India and in my first week of living here. It is provided here, in order, for your education and amusement. The list is accompanied by some images of different signs and…
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Krishi Mela 2007
Special regard must be paid to agriculture. -Baha’u’llah, Tablets 90 When I arrived to the campus of the University of Agricultural Sciences on the 30th, my new home for the next 6 months, I wasn’t able to get an accurate impression of the campus because it happened to be the site of a public municipal…
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