Journey to Gujarat
In less than two days, our individual journeys to Gujarat, India will begin. Personally, the thoughts and emotions seem to be vast and filled with both excitement and uncertainty. As I’ve read on the...
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Throughout the time I spent post-finals and pre-trip shuffling through my many print outs of readings and articles, I stupidly ignored the importance of pop culture. It is strongly well known just how...
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Uttarayan
Today in Ahmedabad City was the international kite festival known as Uttarayan. It is a national holiday all over Gujarat where everyone gathers on rooftops to fly beautiful paper kites tied to a sharp...
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Time is money
Before the sun had risen in Ahmedabad this morning, all eight of us waited patiently for our bus to arrive. Sleep still in our eyes, we all piled in together to head to Mother Teresa’s Home for the...
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What’s in a GDP
In the last ten days, we have seen and heard a multitude of perspectives. As we have walked through the bustling streets of “vibrant” Gujarat, everything comes back to development. Yes, maybe Gujarat...
View ArticleThe Strong and Courageous
During our brief time in Gujarat, I tried to focus on the evolution of the women’s rights movement in Gandhi’s land after the carnage of 2002. In a society that continues to idealize patriarchal ideals...
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About a month ago, I had the fortune of having dinner with a friend of mine from home back in Washington, DC. A fellow student of International Policy, for three years she travelled through North...
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The Temples of West India
It took simply a week on the East Coast in the brutal, blistering cold of New York’s never-ending winter to realize that I had taken the January weather of West India for granted. It was in those warm,...
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Smiling Eyes
In our short time in Gujarat, I managed to learn quite quickly that as intimidating as many settings may have been for me in my newfound role of “apprenticed field researcher”, I had no fears when it...
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The Field Researcher
Although each of us on the journey to Gujarat had their own unique reasons for participation, the core of mine lied in my quest to learn whether I had the capability to take on the role of an academic...
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