Happy Easter!

DSC_2388 DSC_2390 DSC_2391 "Love has a hem to her garment that reaches the very dust. It sweeps the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must." - Mother Teresa

One day, back in Sep/Oct we were hanging out with our friends by the river (in Karnataka). This day served as our "going away party" after working at Ashraya Mission for the past several weeks.  We ate a delicious meal of Chicken 65 cooked to perfection on a makeshift stove by our friend Shunkar. After lunch we basked on the river bank, nursing our full bellies. We took a dip in the river with some buffalo then dried off by the heat of the Indian sun. While we were sun-bathing this friendly woman crossed the river near us. My friend Mithun picked up my camera and snapped these beautiful photos of her. Just look at her bright smile!

-Happy Easters!

Happy Holi!

Today, March 27th, is the day where people around the world celebrate HOLI.  It's a festival of COLOR welcoming the spring season and the ripe opportunities and new beginnings that accompany it.  Last year, we celebrated HOLI on our campus to raise funds for a couple teams doing work in India.  Here's a video by the awesome photographer/videographer Jake Morgan. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/47564466]

Here are a few of my favorite moments I captured from the event:

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Some images from HOLI festivals captured by my favorite photographer Steve McCurry:

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Here's an interesting article in The New York Times by Vishnu Varma about the colony of widows in northern India's Uttar Pradesh and how they are breaking conventions by playing Holi.

Happy HOLI!

 

 

Sabzi Walah!

Sabzi Walah! As I sit at home here in the states, studying for my midterm tomorrow, my mind wanders to India. One of the many things (dozens, hundreds of things.......) I miss about India are the vegetable salesmen that walk throughout the neighborhoods shouting, "Sabzi walah!" Sometimes if my friends and I were feeling snarky we would hide out on the roof and yell it back. That usually wasn't appreciated by the salesman, but we got a momentary chuckle out of it.

Check out this video I found on YouTube of a singing wala. Pretty cool!

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