India

A conversation with my parents about India

March 8, 2010

As part of our continuing world travel plans, Mr. B and I are planning to go to India this spring because we’re bored of Europe (see: Prague) and ready for a little bit of third-world excitement. Little did we know that the excitement would start before we even bought our tickets. This weekend, we were in Philadelphia with my parents and my mother-in-law and the conversation came around to our travel plans. “I don’t like this idea at all,” said ...

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Dr. Maina Singh and the Indian Jews of Israel

November 30, 2009

Every time I find out about another ethnic Jewish minority, it blows my mind.  How many permutations of us are there? Of course you have your garden variety North American Jews, then you have us Russian Jews who are apprently invading everything, and then there are the Ethiopians, the cool kids of the 1990s.  But Indian Jews?  Really? A couple weeks ago, at American University, Dr. Maina Chawla Singh delivered a lecture on Being Indian, Being Israeli. Dr. Singh  is ...

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Bhuvan and Gauri

October 16, 2009

Can be found here.

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Indian Classical Dance: Bharatan-what??

September 14, 2009

This weekend, I went to see Ritu Samharam, presented by the Nrityanjali dance Company.  It was my first time ever seeing Indian classical dance live, and it was pretty exciting. It turns out that Indian classical dance is nothing like Bollywood, as I had assumed.  It takes a lot more concentration to both watch and perform it. The style that I went to see was called Bharatanatyam, from South India.  There are three key elements of classical Indian dancing irrespective ...

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Pictures from Bangladesh

August 10, 2009

I have a friend named Shehzeen who is Bangladeshi, who I met through another Bangladeshi friend. Because, once you have one Bangladeshi friend,  you have at least five or six. Since I’ve become friends with Bangladeshis, my knowledge about the country has gone from zero to sixty in three seconds.  I’m sure their knowledge of drunk Yeltsin has also been enriched.   One of the things I didn’t know, for example, is that Bangladesh has about 150 million people, the same ...

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