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Court of Lilliput: June 2009
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Reflections on a life lived out of context. Wednesday, June 17, 2009. May 25, 2009. A slum in Howrah, and an upscale neighborhood in south Kolkata, West Bengal. This was written on June 14, a day and a half before leaving Kolkata, and posted from the US]. Wednesday, June 3, 2009. The Great American-Bengali Passover Seder. April 8-16, 2009. I arrived in Chennai on what was officially the second night of the holiday, and celebrated on what was unofficially my second night of observation. No Room for Shoes.
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Court of Lilliput: December 2009
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Reflections on a life lived out of context. Sunday, December 6, 2009. Kolkata, India and San Francisco/Oakland/Berkeley, USA. This blog was intended to be a holding place for a collection of writings about two years spent living and working in Hyderabad and Kolkata (and Delhi and…), India. It skips over most of the daily details, although some overview of those can be found in these. Those are in the blog posts):. 8226; The mutability of language and the vagaries of communication. View my complete profile.
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Court of Lilliput: December 2008
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Reflections on a life lived out of context. Tuesday, December 23, 2008. A Miracle of Re-Creation. With blurry photo love from my fabulous office this Hanukkah,. Monday, December 22, 2008. On Orphaning Children and Putting Turkeys in Hibernation. 26 November 2008: Terrorists attack Mumbai. 28 November 2008: Thanksgiving dinner in Kolkata. Orphaning other people’s children will not make this world a safer place for anyone’s community. When we attack the innocent, we become the enemy. The emails came quickl...
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Court of Lilliput: March 2009
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Reflections on a life lived out of context. Wednesday, March 11, 2009. 13 things to do while visiting ancient ruins. March 1-5, 2009. Aurangabad, Ellora, and Ajanta, Maharashtra. I’ve been visiting a lot of gorgeous, ancient pieces of stone lately, and decided to compile a list of things to do while visiting ruins. 1 Imagine what you would look like carved in stone. 2 Listen in on other people’s guided tours (look casually in another direction). 7 Process all those situations in which you never quite fig...
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Court of Lilliput: July 2009
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Reflections on a life lived out of context. Monday, July 20, 2009. The Book List, Part III. December 2008 – May 2009. It is stunning, and humbling, and in the end not at all surprising, how little the expat experience, let alone ‘scene,’ has changed in India over the last fifty years – an insightful sliver of individual ambitions and reformed identities in a world where everyone seems to be living out of context. The Age of Kali. Amartya Sen (second half). Same-Sex Love in India. Sexuality, Gender and Ri...
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Court of Lilliput: April 2009
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Reflections on a life lived out of context. Saturday, April 18, 2009. To Be Rendered Invisible. Poverty, Dance, and Private/Public Space. Kolkata, West Bengal, India. This is an incredibly disturbing exercise. It is dehumanizing – an act of erasing – and in the process you often learn how to erase yourself, how to fade to the background as much as your own appearance will allow (and, admittedly, my appearance doesn’t allow much). The approximate population of both Ballygunge and Panama is 3 million.
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Court of Lilliput: The Thank-You Letter
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Reflections on a life lived out of context. Wednesday, August 6, 2008. What I learned in India,' written as a closing activity for the AJWS World Partner Fellowship). June 27, 2008. I am writing to thank you . (this was originally a thank-you letter to financial supporters, but I thought I'd take this chance to thank you for reading! And to share with you some of my experiences as a World Partners Fellow. At work, I was able to expand my knowledge of HIV/AIDS, and the state of the epidemic in. At home in...
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Court of Lilliput: February 2009
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Reflections on a life lived out of context. Tuesday, February 17, 2009. Home: A Scrappy Manifesto, or A Manifestation of Scraps? February 12, 2009. When she said I couldn’t go, the tears jumped up and knocked smartly on the back of my throat, and that made the realization easier. One of those little revelations, the ones that are lived over and over again. There was a cave, and a lookout, and there were castles for princesses and studios for artists. One the other side, there was a cabin. There are vehic...
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Court of Lilliput: Dear Future Volunteer
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Reflections on a life lived out of context. Monday, August 25, 2008. Free-form letter to future volunteers working with AJWS). August 11, 2008. Dear Future Volunteer,. Welcome to the rabbit hole. Its a long drop down, but its worth the ride. Productive discomfort:' very well put! September 3, 2008 at 10:48 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Kolkata, West Bengal, India. View my complete profile. Click here to view my photo albums. No Room for Shoes. The Space of Good. This is Why I Blot.
