Dakshana Bascaramurty
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The startup life in Ethiopia
Above is my very first experiment in making a timelapse video. It captures the team from Ethiopian educational media company Whiz Kids Workshop setting up a classroom library as part of a crowdfunded project to bring their high-quality educational material to government schools. The social enterprise is known across Ethiopia for their wildly popular educational public television…
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Film on the Pulse Pilot in Ahmedabad
Above is a short film my teammate Karl Oscar Teien put together of some of the key stages we went through in our pilot of the Pulse Active Food Savings concept in the slums of Ahmedabad, India this summer. Here you will see us as we developed the prototypes, brought them back to users for…
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I’m back in India.
That’s right, again. A couple months ago I got recruited by a couple classmates to spend the last module of my master’s program in Ahmedabad to help run a pilot of social enterprise they had been working on. I arrived on Monday morning and will be here until mid-August, from which point I will have…
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“Fortress” by MJ Cyr
Last weekend my old friend MJ Cyr came to the Bay Area to perform the amazing songs she has been making based on the writings of the Baha’i Faith. I shot the above video at her last house concert in the area. It’s called “Fortress” and it uses words of a following prayer by ‘Abdu’l-Baha:…
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Benoit-James-Seleger family GIF
I just moved down to San Francisco for grad school and before I left Ottawa in the wee hours of Sunday morning my family got together for a photo shoot and dinne at a nearby South Indian restaurant. My mom and dad have been pestering me to email them the photos from shoot, so instead…
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The Brothers Farr sing for ‘Abdu’l-Baha in Montreal
Yesterday members of the Baha’i community were invited to join the congregation of St. James United Church in downtown Montreal for special Sunday service. It was nearly 100 years ago to the day that a 68 year old Persian spiritual leader spoke in the same church on the evolution of religion. From 239 Days in…
Samuel Benoit 