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Background: The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab incursions starting in the 8th century and Turkish in the 12th were followed by those of European traders, beginning in the late 15th century. By the 19th century, Britain had assumed political control of virtually all Indian lands. Indian armed forces in the British army played a vital role in both World Wars. Nonviolent resistance to British colonialism led by Mohandas GANDHI and Jawaharlal NEHRU brought independence in 1947. The subcontinent was divided into the secular state of India and the smaller Muslim state of Pakistan. A third war between the two countries in 1971 resulted in East Pakistan becoming the separate nation of Bangladesh. Despite impressive gains in economic investment and output, India faces pressing problems such as the ongoing dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir, massive overpopulation, environmental degradation, extensive poverty, and ethnic and religious strife.




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ok,so i haven't blogged in ages! sorry! but i do have a very very good excuse....got all geared up to write one last week and then felt really ill started sweating went out to get some air and nearly collapsed........on Dehra Dun high street......needless to say no blog that day.....:) I think i was just dehydrated and that combined with severe delhi belly (except rishkesh belly i think) made me stay in bed recuperating at torals for two days....but all good now. Nats had the same think but less severe and that cleared up. On monday we arrived at the school [View Full Entry]

Katie_m80 - Katie MacKinnon | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: January 20th 2007 | 274 Views | [diary=120956]


sup yo? well fuck me drunk and tickle me pink if that busride last night was not the very very worst busride evaaahhh. which busride i hear you say and then i say who's telling this story you or me? and then you're all quiet and contrite and humbled and freshly aware of your place in the great chain of being: god is up the top, see, then louis XIV the sun king, then the sun which is lower than louis on account of he is the sun king i.e. ruler of the sun, then the spring clean for the may [View Full Entry]

mikey p - john the baptist | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: January 17th 2007 | 38 Views | [diary=119889]


By mikey p
December 26th 2006
christmas in clement town Asia » India » Uttarakhand » Dehradun
hello well here we are in clement town. xmas was nice and we got through without any dramas.. i was wondering whether we would or not.. i've been taking lots of films but they take sooo long to upload that it's hard to get them where youse can see them. there'll hafta be a slide night methinks. has anyone got a fondue set i can borrow? xmas eve we spent in delhi, mostly. we were going to go to appu ghar amusement park but the girls felt sick so we got a room instead.. they watched cartoon network and i got [View Full Entry]

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Published: January 17th 2007 | 41 Views | [diary=119891]


By mikey p
December 2nd 2006
snow dance; clement town Asia » India » Uttarakhand » Dehradun
greetings, salutations.. i've kept wanting to write down what's been happening and now i have the chance i find it impossible to convey. i am in a tiny tibetan settlement in the far far north of india.. everyone here is tibetan, about 3000 folks. yesterday we were in delhi.. delhi is chaotic and noisy and totally fucking rocks, in my humble fucking opinion. i have holes in my shoes through which seeps some kind of liquid composed, i suspect, mostly of shit. my socks harden shitfully on my feet. but as steve albini has said of the music industry, sometimes you [View Full Entry]

mikey p - john the baptist | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: January 26th 2007 | 59 Views | [diary=122751]


I feel like my last few blogs have been kinda whiny, sorry about that. Will try to not let that happen anymore. So, the Iridology with the Naturopathic doctor was interesting. She had already heard of the conditions Lisa was dealing with so I wasn't particularly impressed by anything she said about her, Elliot she didn't really get right, Ally she actually picked up on some things that I don't think Ally told her about but that I guess she got right, but as for mine she was completely off. I was wondering if she would pick up on my stomach [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 25th 2006 | 149 Views | [diary=72501]


By The Waker
June 21st 2006
a week late Asia » India » Uttarakhand » Dehradun
I'm back in Dehradun this week...I have an Internal Medicine rotation in the moring and then an ER/caridology rotation in the evening. My IM rotation is very frustrating...but very entertaining. Frustrating because I'm alone on this rotation and the Doctor basically ignores me. Since he only speaks to his patients in Hindi I can't even guess whats going on....every now and then he'll flash an x-ray infront of a light box just long enough for me to figure out what part of the body it is, yell some gibberish and then smile like he's just impareted the wisdom of hippocrates on [View Full Entry]

The Waker - James Heckman | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 29th 2006 | 101 Views | [diary=68137]


Well, I've gotten a stomach bug. Bound to happen at some point when you're traveling in India, right? =P Only no one else in my group got as affected and we've all been eating the same things, so the only thing I can think that could have made me sicker is because I'm a little short on blood. A young woman came in a couple of days ago, maybe 17 years old, who was the encyclopedia picture of extreme anemia. Her tongue was *white*, there were pretty much no blood vessels visible under her lower eyelids, and her fingernails were white [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 25th 2006 | 203 Views | [diary=67216]


So we finished up our first week of rotations today and in the spirit of a good recap (not to mention some email inquiries) I figured I'd try and sum up a "typical" day....if there is such a thing here....note...this gets long...feel free to skim.....some medical stuff in here too..let me know if you need clarification... I've been having trouble sleeping past 5:30 each morning...maybe its the jet lag..but breakfast isn't served until around 7:30 so I read for about two hours every moring...making good progress too...three books down since I've been here (Da vinci Code, The Rum Diary...fina [View Full Entry]

The Waker - James Heckman | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 9th 2006 | 171 Views | [diary=65374]


So here I am in India! It's taking me awhile to really realize it. I still think I'm getting over being done with first year and exams. =P They say you're supposed to go through about 4 stages of culture shock. First Honeymoon, then Hostility, then Humor, then finally feeling like this is Home. I think I skipped right over the Honeymoon and went straight to Hostility and then to Humor. Probably because within 2 seconds of stepping out of the airport terminal a bunch of porters tried to take advantage of my ignorance and general confusion and get me to [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 25th 2006 | 292 Views | [diary=65390]

mendhi!

By The Waker
June 6th 2006
Made it Asia » India » Uttarakhand » Dehradun
Dehradun is like a carnival on acid, where amazement mingles with nausea right up to the point where you almost can't take it then backs off to give youa break. Smells cycle recklessly from "barnyard" to "fried food" to "garbage" and back. The bumper cars have no enclosure and no rules, and for 4 rupees (10 cents) you can go along for the ride. The rickshaw drivers play indian hip-hop which is the most annoying sound in the world until you realize you've been bobbing your head with the beat for 10 minutes. The women wrap themselves in the most brilliant [View Full Entry]

The Waker - James Heckman | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 6th 2006 | 226 Views | [diary=64663]