Overseas program(s):
India Fall 2015
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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, […]
Fresh Beginnings (at Delhi University) - The atmosphere that young people create is alive. An air of excitement filled the campus as we quickly toured around before class, but it had nothing to do with us visiting foreigners. Though there’s staring wherever we go, the University students were more occupied with their studies, student government campaigns, social movements and their conversations […]
The History of India- John Mcleod - Ancient Indian History – One aspect of ancient Indian history that struck me as important in this reading is how deeply rooted farming and trade has been in Indian history from the beginning. The Harrappans and Mauryas were especially known for their crops and the trade that developed with the communities surrounding then. The “quest […]