Panchgani
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The Baha’i Academy (where I have been for the past two months)
I have always been fascinated by how Baha’i and Baha’i-inspired organizations tend to evolve so drastically to meet changing conditions and build on experience. The Baha’i Academy is a perfect example. It began in 1982 to provide an academic home for some of the many Baha’i scholars who were forced to flee Iran during the Islamic…
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To vote or to not not vote
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is once again applying to renew his contract with the people of Canada, but there are a handful of other guys that think that they can do the job better. Over here in India I feel connected with all my fellow Canadians as we reflect once again on our electoral process,…
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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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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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Merry Diwali
Just when you were thinking that it was really time this blog stopped milking a trip I went on weeks ago now, here is one more set of photos from Panchgani! There are some odds and ends from the trip and plenty of cool ones of the wild Diwali fireworks.
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Return to NEDI – oops, I mean NETTC
The third and last stop of my personal pilgrimage through Panchgani was to my parent’s workplace and the buildings my father helped to build when we were there. In the summer of 1996, an old friend, Sherif Rushdy saw that my father was inbetween project management jobs and asked him to bring us over to…
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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.
Samuel Benoit 