india
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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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Panchgani to Mahableshwar to Pune to Ajanta
The present has a tendency to move much faster than my capacity to report on the past, so I am going to try to pick up the pace some. I have just returned from a second trip to Delhi that I am eager to tell you about, but haven’t yet reported on the first. This visit I was having fun imagining all the tourists coming…
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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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Journey North Begins
During the summer of 2005 I did an internship with the Olinga Foundation in Ghana, West Africa. Most of the time I lived and worked in Accra, the capital city, but I also spent several weeks at the field office in a small town called Bawdie in the Western Region. I was there right after…
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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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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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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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The Journey: A Photographic Journey in Photos
I arrived safely and provided on my flickr site is photographic proof in case you don’t believe me. Unfortunatly the images are all out of order – but I know you’ll forgive me UPDATE: Now in order in this set. Some upcoming posts will explore: What exactly it is that I am doing here The…
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