Dharwad
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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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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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Dharwad to Belguam to Panchgani
*Note the above post title only lists our destinations, one must pass through innumerable places on the way. Overnight buses and trains are a great way to both save money on hotels and to develop funky personal odours while travelling in India. For me, the single thing that I had been anticipating the most about Anis’s visit…
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First 19 Day Feast in Dharwad
One of the very cool things about Baha’i communities around the world is that they tend to take the form of the culture they are in, this is especially so when the members of the community are made up mostly of local people rather than travelers like myself. The best place to see this play…
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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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