Fall break is in full swing! In fact, I’m currently in one of London’s many airports waiting to board a flight to Budapest. This weekend I explored Dublin with a classmate; we’ve spent the last few days here in London. We stayed in a rather centrally located hostel in Dublin. In London, a friend living […]
On Meeting Salma
We met the female, Tamil poet, Salma, a couple weeks back, and it was an incredibly moving experience. Her story is a difficult one. She grew up in a small village in Tamil Nadu, was locked up in her home at the age of 13, married off not long after that and kept away from […]
Wave Across Nations
October first turns the page, 8 am, my body salutes the sun next to hundreds of other western, middle-eastern ramblers. Nestled in the Himalayan foothills, each of us stands alone in our zen, yogi minds, but the collective consciousness awakens. This wave flows from the mountains, down the Ganga, across the continent in all directions, […]
Independent Study and Travel
From the 7th to the 17th, the seven of us here in Jinan were allowed to travel independently around the country, as long as we managed to budget our time in order to also make adequate progress on our independent research projects. As much as I love living in Jinan, I knew that I needed […]
Pio Log: Overseas Column
I had already written this article, before a black-out swept the city and knocked our wifi out with it. This happens every now and again; there have been thunder and lightning storms ever since we arrived in Chennai two weeks back. Surely, the lights jump back on, and you realize that no black-out could […]