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Monthly Archives: October 2013
epilogue, or: “the next go-round”
That’s it, I’m done. This ended up becoming much longer than I anticipated. At over 22,000 words, this could be a small book. I have combed through every post multiple times now, adjusting adjectives and adding funny details I forgot … Continue reading
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departure
After our MUWCI visit we returned to Pune. We spent a couple days with a lovely friend named Rohan, and we visited Nandu’s studio once again. Nandu was one of my favorite teachers and he was, and still is, a … Continue reading
return
September 23rd: We are on a train, again. We are on our way to Pune, again. In about an hour we will pull in to Pune Junction Station and push our way out to the platform, for the 3rd and … Continue reading
intermission again
This is the part where I drop the facade. The part where I am disgusted by the cute little alliterations sprinkled all over this pretentious text. The part where I am done with ending every post on a hopeful note, … Continue reading
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emergence
We had a very brief stay in Chennai, which you had better not call by its old colonial name Madras, which Tamils have always disliked. We gave one presentation of The True Cost of Coal poster, in a beautiful and … Continue reading
harbingers
We took another very long train ride to the former French colony Puducherry, which nobody ever calls by that silly name – the old name is Pondicherry, everyone refers to it as Pondy. There we had another two days of just … Continue reading
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sights
After our visit to Shantiniketan we took a little break to check out a few tourist destinations in Odisha, which is just a more phonetically accurate way of spelling the old name Orissa. We spent a couple days in Konarak, … Continue reading
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songs
We spent nearly a week in Shantiniketan, which means “Abode of Peace,” and is the site of Rabindranath Tagore‘s Visva-Bharati University. It was longer than we intended; we delayed our departure because we got very bad gut infections during our … Continue reading
one million man army
Our next destination was Kolkata, which really is just the same as the old name Calcutta. I am really happy that we made this very long trip to Kolkata. Nikki did not want to travel so far away from our … Continue reading
intermission
As with all good Hindi movies, this is turning out to be a lot longer than I expected… It seems like this is a good time for an intermission. After this point the tone of our travels changed significantly, and … Continue reading
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