October 22, 2010
Bhubaneswar bills itself as the City of Temples. So my hosts took me on a brief tour of some well-known landmarks. As evening set in on that day, we stopped by temple atop a small hill. Rain spit,
October 17, 2010
A couple of month’s back I made contact with the director of a socially-based theatre company located in Orissa. Through e-mail, we discussed the possibility of me visiting his group and facility. On Oct. 12 I started that
October 10, 2010
My sandals have endured the rain and its puddles far more often than I would like. No matter where I seem to set them, when it rains, they get significantly wet, such that the next day they are
October 3, 2010
Wondering what the specific exploits of a Fulbrighter are? For you with the curiosity, I trust the following will satiate that interest.
Thursday, Sept 23
After popping in to visit students I taught a month ago, I met with students
September 29, 2010
Late on Monday, two young college students showed up at my house to deliver an invitation for a workshop I would be teaching the very next morning. They repeated several times how much they were looking forward to
September 21, 2010
SNIPPET ONE: As the final day came to a close, a number of the young students pulled out little slips of paper, small wrapped boxes and pens. They handed me these gifts with thank you’s and I will
September 13, 2010
As I sit in the living room of a good friend of mine here in Kerala state, enjoying the cool of the fan above my head (more about the significance of that fan coming) and listening to the
September 7, 2010
I met the mother of one young student. Dressed in a burqa, her sudden presence reminded me that the student is Muslim. What that means for the young person, I do not know. I never asked and the
