india
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A short film about sports
If I don’t understand football, curling, or even marathon running – there is no way I am going to understand the sport that the majority of the planet has long written off as too perplexing to even try. As little as I understand about cricket, I did have the feeling that if India was going to…
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A Magic Show by Parmesh
Every 19 days Baha’i communities all over the globe get together for an event called the Nineteen Day Feast. The Feast generally consists of collective worship, consultation and socializing – but each of those elements can take any of a number of forms depending on the culture and style of the community.
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NEW FEATURE: Reviews of Bollywood movies
About a year ago a colleague of mine invited me to join her to a movie night at a friend’s place. She forwarded me the invitation and I saw that it was not a movie night but an institution. This guy had been progressively taking a group of his friends on an exploration of critically…
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Working at the prayer factory
I have finally posted to flickr my set of photos from my month serving at the Baha’i House of Worship in New Delhi, India. Along with some unusual photos of the Lotus Temple there are are pictures of two sun-burnt Quebecers, cockroaches and trash cans at the zoo. Click onwards.
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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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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…
Samuel Benoit 