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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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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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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Hello! My name is Richard Chen See, and I am a 2018 Fulbright-Nehru Teaching and Professional Excellence Grant recipient spending six months in India. My area of expertise is in dance,
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Maharaj Sawai Jai Singh II became a Rajput ruler in 1699, at the tender age of 11. He proceeded to become a rock
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A village shrine

From 1 September 2017 to 28 February 2018, I will be a Fulbright-Nehru fellow in India.  Here is where, as promised, I will be posting regular updates of photos and findings
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Rekha Datta August 31, 2017

The name Amma was not foreign to me before coming to India to do research at Amitra Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS). Indeed, I had heard of the "Hugging Saint" for more than a decade while living in Los
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