The Landour Language School (LLS) has facilitated many language learning journeys since the mid-1800s. Initially, there were a number of schools in Mussourie where foreign diplomats, British officers, and missionaries came to learn Hindi. By
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On our way to Mussourie, after trekking in the Panwali-Kantha area of Uttarakhand, we stopped at the gigantic Tehri dam: it was
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Throughout my childhood, I looked forward to pujo. That was when we got new dresses, skipped school, ate delicious Bengali junk food, and were swept up in the
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                “Left, right, left…no…wait right, left, right” ran in my head against the symphony of horn
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A traditional presentation of
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Since returning home two weeks back after a long, arduous 14-month stint in India. Before I began my fieldwork, I knew that I would face many obstacles in
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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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