Work
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Was that you on TV?
Yes. I’m the one with the big hair, the helmet and the engraved hunk of plastic. Watch it here. I was accepting the hunk of plastic on behalf of the Otesha Project, where I now work. More on that later.
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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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Naw-Ruz Greeting Video and Naw-Ruz in General
My beloved Flickr has just added video functionality so I am posting here the video Naw-Ruz greeting video I was commissioned by the Ottawa holy day celebration master Sherrie Yazdani to make. She asked all Ottawa Baha’is living far and away to send in short greeting videos to be shown all together at the community’s…
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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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Poop 101
A couple posts ago as I told you about about the research I am doing on a waste water stream in Hubli, Karnataka, and we started to think about the idea of pee-pee and poo-poo as an important resource rather than something not to be thought on or digust, um, discussed. Pursuant to this research,…
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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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