Category: India
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Old Delhi
Hank Kreuzman organized an afternoon trip by several of us to Old Delhi. We first toured the Red Fort (see above), which was the primary palace of the Mughal emperors until 1857 and a British and Indian administrative center since. It is a fascinating place, especially considering its long and complex history. The capitol city…
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More Photos
We just got back from a very moving visit to Wooster Nagar (lit. Wooster Town), a village destroyed by the 2004 tsunami and rebuilt with the support of the Wooster community. I’m sure someone will be blogging on this soon. Before we leave Chennai (we fly this afternoon back to Delhi), I just wanted to…
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Animals: Real and Cake
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Beggars in Delhi
The baby was pressed up against the window glass of the car with his tiny brown face flattened against the surface maybe three inches from my eyes on the other side. He was wearing only a torn strip of a shirt at the top of his chest. On his bare torso below were tightly wrapped…
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Geological Holy Land
Our trip to Devprayag, where the Bhagirathi and Alaknanda Rivers combine to produce the Ganges, began in Haridwar on the bank of the Ganges. This was the day that I could see India through the disciplinary eyes of a geologist. The rocks and landscapes we saw on our northward journey transcended the extraordinary human culture…
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Discovery of India (Redux)
The history of colonialism is replete with examples of discoveries of people and places who were already there…and doing quite well, thank you very much. Most often when Europeans went on their voyages of discovery it meant very bad things for a very long time for those who were “discovered”. I have found it to…