The following are links to 358 photos from India. They were mostly taken during 2007 by Chaya.
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Searching for Indian Woodcarver Photos Attn: Any traveler who has traveled in India with the good senses to take photographs. Need: I am currently looking for a few photographs of Indian wood (sandalwood preferably) carvers and/ or the wares that they produce to accompany an article that I wrote to be published in Abroad View [...]
Tibetan Refugees in India Photos The following links lead to photographs of Tibetan refugees in the Bylakuppe camp in southern India. I took these pictures in the autumn of 2006 when I was doing research for an article on exile Tibetans called Seekers of Refuge in a Land of No Return that was published in [...]
Can Anyone Read Nepali? So I was traveling in the north east of India with Stubbs back in 2005, and I was just standing around in the market watching some ladies buy oranges when a guy with a big old camera came up to me and asked if he could take my picture. I obliged [...]
The New World Looks Ahead, Not Back: The elderly left behind with their times in the new India We piled into a mini-bus and took off through the traffic wretched, exhaust poisoned streets of Bangalore. It took us over an hour to get to the outskirts of the city where we came upon the retirement [...]
“Smoke is an indication of work . . . therefore, we are proud of our smoke.”Reactions to the thoughtless acquisition and utilization of introduced technology in Southern India. “Developing countries must not and will not allow themselves to be distracted from the imperatives of economic development and growth by the illusory dream of an atmosphere [...]
A Respectable Development?The Tribals of Arunachal Pradesh: Then and Now “. . . we are faced with the phenomenon of a rapid material, social, and educational development of a tribal society which has found a place in the modern world without so far losing its identity as a distinct ethnic entity.” -Christoph Von Furer-Haimendorf (approx. [...]
Anecdotes from the Indian Notebook Gave Mira a nose piercingTraditional Indian way just meant dirtyWe found out thoughWent to an old time jeweler and she said she wanted A traditional nose piercing done in the traditional way“You know, where the piercing is put through the acupuncture point”Indian piercing man made a special tripTo jewelry shop [...]
“What is the Good of That?”and other reasons why I cannot stomach the faith of commerce “….the idea is that no society is ever complete, neither are its needs exactly the same as those of other societies.” -Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi Varun (or Victor for work purposes) declares: ‘An air-conditioned sweat shop [...]
A Visit to a South Indian Archaeological SiteAnd a head first jump into the folk-lexicon of village Karnataka It was mid-September and the beginning of a very temperate South Indian Autumn; a group of students and I were on a visit to a local archaeological site just outside of Bangalore city. We all packed into [...]
The following is a revision of an article that I wrote from a visit to the Bylakuppe Tibetan Refugee camp in Karnataka, India. Abroad View magazine selected it for publication in their spring 2008 print edition. Seekers of Refuge in a Land of No Return:Conversations with Tibetan Refugees in Bylakuppe In 1959, on the heels [...]
Upstate New YorkJuly 10, 2007 “. . . even a rolling stone requires an occasional handful of moss.”-Harry Franck, Working North from Patagonia Alpacas in Bosque de Piedras, Peru, 2001. As I ended up back in the USA I figure that I am afforded the opportunity to think through some of my previous travels and [...]
Overseas Chinese in India: Thick Description, I A classroom meeting with Tony Leong This following document consists of thick description notes of a classroom meeting with Tony Leong; who is a third generation Overseas Chinese that was born and raised in India. Mr. Leong came in to provide a ‘Global Migration and Refugee Studies’ class [...]
