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Court of Lilliput: June 2009
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Reflections on a life lived out of context. Wednesday, June 17, 2009. May 25, 2009. A slum in Howrah, and an upscale neighborhood in south Kolkata, West Bengal. This was written on June 14, a day and a half before leaving Kolkata, and posted from the US]. Wednesday, June 3, 2009. The Great American-Bengali Passover Seder. April 8-16, 2009. I arrived in Chennai on what was officially the second night of the holiday, and celebrated on what was unofficially my second night of observation. No Room for Shoes.
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Court of Lilliput: December 2009
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Reflections on a life lived out of context. Sunday, December 6, 2009. Kolkata, India and San Francisco/Oakland/Berkeley, USA. This blog was intended to be a holding place for a collection of writings about two years spent living and working in Hyderabad and Kolkata (and Delhi and…), India. It skips over most of the daily details, although some overview of those can be found in these. Those are in the blog posts):. 8226; The mutability of language and the vagaries of communication. View my complete profile.
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Court of Lilliput: December 2008
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Reflections on a life lived out of context. Tuesday, December 23, 2008. A Miracle of Re-Creation. With blurry photo love from my fabulous office this Hanukkah,. Monday, December 22, 2008. On Orphaning Children and Putting Turkeys in Hibernation. 26 November 2008: Terrorists attack Mumbai. 28 November 2008: Thanksgiving dinner in Kolkata. Orphaning other people’s children will not make this world a safer place for anyone’s community. When we attack the innocent, we become the enemy. The emails came quickl...
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Court of Lilliput: March 2009
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Reflections on a life lived out of context. Wednesday, March 11, 2009. 13 things to do while visiting ancient ruins. March 1-5, 2009. Aurangabad, Ellora, and Ajanta, Maharashtra. I’ve been visiting a lot of gorgeous, ancient pieces of stone lately, and decided to compile a list of things to do while visiting ruins. 1 Imagine what you would look like carved in stone. 2 Listen in on other people’s guided tours (look casually in another direction). 7 Process all those situations in which you never quite fig...
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Court of Lilliput: July 2009
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Reflections on a life lived out of context. Monday, July 20, 2009. The Book List, Part III. December 2008 – May 2009. It is stunning, and humbling, and in the end not at all surprising, how little the expat experience, let alone ‘scene,’ has changed in India over the last fifty years – an insightful sliver of individual ambitions and reformed identities in a world where everyone seems to be living out of context. The Age of Kali. Amartya Sen (second half). Same-Sex Love in India. Sexuality, Gender and Ri...
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Scrapbook of a Restless Soul: Encouragement
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006. So, after a leadership (chairperson, treasurer, secretary) are elected, the group (usually of women since they the primary family caretakers) meets once a week and EVERYONE, whether one has a job or not, must contribute 1000 Shillings (about 60 cents) each meeting. Self-sacrifice will bring a true feeling of ownership as well as a well thought out plan for using the funds. Jonathan Bahman Quarles Pourzal. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Leave it to the People (page 8). 72806 B...
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Scrapbook of a Restless Soul: Uganda's natural beauty in people and land, Mukono, and Kytume Community Based Health Care
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Thursday, July 27, 2006. Uganda's natural beauty in people and land, Mukono, and Kytume Community Based Health Care. Jen and I are now in Busia, which is in the far most East part of. The organization we are to meet with seems great and we plan to see a lot tomorrow, so I will write about it then. On Monday, we met with a CBO called Kytume CBHC (Community Based Health Care), which is located about 20 outside of. Near a town called Mukono. CBHC started about 10 years ago providing medical services to the.
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Scrapbook of a Restless Soul: Troy Davis: Political Prisoner on Death Row
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Monday, October 27, 2008. Troy Davis: Political Prisoner on Death Row. Troy Davis: Political Prisoner on Death Row. We contend that but for the racist bigotry, and the insensitivity of the government in Georgia, Troy Davis would not be in prison or on Death Row today…. Thomas Ruffin, Jr., Legal Counsel for DC Black August Planning Organization. And yes, Davis is a political prisoner. His political crime? Being a young, educated Black Man in the state of Georgia who was in the wrong place at the wrong tim...
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Scrapbook of a Restless Soul: October 2008
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Monday, October 27, 2008. Troy Davis: Political Prisoner on Death Row. Troy Davis: Political Prisoner on Death Row. We contend that but for the racist bigotry, and the insensitivity of the government in Georgia, Troy Davis would not be in prison or on Death Row today…. Thomas Ruffin, Jr., Legal Counsel for DC Black August Planning Organization. And yes, Davis is a political prisoner. His political crime? Being a young, educated Black Man in the state of Georgia who was in the wrong place at the wrong tim...
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Scrapbook of a Restless Soul: 2nd Entry - Only 2 weeks left in Beijing
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007. 2nd Entry - Only 2 weeks left in Beijing. A note about Internet in China. Only through usage of proxy servers have I been able to post on this blog, and even check some email accounts here. In fact, I wasn’t even able to view my own blog for a while because of what some call “the great firewall of. There is extensive government censorship of the internet, which fluctuates in severity content targeted and can become a major pain at times. Although it seems to become something that ...