Travelling to rural parts of the state one sees a transition from the structures of development and modernity (high rises, hotels restaurants, malls) to the structures of subsistence (farms, cattle, industry).  Thanks to globalization in Chennai, this transition is very gradual as neighborhoods that
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Chennai was in the news even as I arrived here.   And the reason was the acute water shortage.   “Millions of people are running out of
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Nearly ten months ago, Delhi welcomed me with an unyielding humid embrace. Between the fog accumulating on my glasses and the darkness of the night, I could
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Chennai Silks essentially serves as Tamil Nadu’s version of a Super Target. In Vellore, its white fluorescent lights illuminate the national highway (the same one we
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As I am about to return to the U.S. in a couple of days, I have been reflecting on my last nine months in Dharamsala, India.
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Watching the shuttle fly back and forth, one gets the impression that the past and the future are being woven together at the same time as cloth emerges from
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For the last three months, I have been immersed in the vibrant musical culture of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. As an alumna of the University of Southern California’s renowned Thornton School
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Hello! Happy 2019! My name is Richard Chen See, and I am a 2018-19 Fulbright-Nehru Teaching and Professional Excellence Grant recipient spending six months in India. My area of expertise is
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“Do you prefer Biggie Smalls or Tupac Shakur?” Nyoshul Khenpo Tulku, a sixteen-year-old reincarnate lama, sat across from me, patiently awaiting my answer. Before conducting interviews for my Fulbright
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