Author: gshaya
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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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Education in India
One of the central themes of Nussbaum’s book is the failure of state education in India. She takes it to task for rote learning and a total absence of critical thinking. What is interesting is that private education in India is booming. In fact, it’s a thriving industry. The signs are everywhere. On the streets,…
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Reflections While Touring
We’re all a bit punch-drunk from a long bus ride, but I thought I should add a brief word. We’ll be traveling tomorrow to Chennai. We’ve spent the last couple of days as true tourists, driving southeast from Delhi to Agra through an early and unexpected rain to visit the Taj Mahal, the marble mausoleum…
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Discovery of India – and Positionality
Trailer for sale or rent / Rooms to rent fifty cents I’m reminded of one of my undergraduate professors of poetry, Richard Tillinghast, who advised us to only read one book at a time. He said he couldn’t think of Huck and Jim without hearing the tremor of far-off drums and feeling the heat of…