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Many people in Chennai, and elsewhere in India, have to go to tanks such as these for water. You see women carrying colourful plastic water contaners in the traditional pear-shape all the time, often on their heads. They have beautiful posture.


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Blog: the real world
Date: February 17th 2006

I am in my favourite cyber cafe in Chennai on Friday morning, February 17 -- playing hookey! I took the morning off school because I feel so overloaded, after almost two weeks. This is an intense learning experience at Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM), in many ways. I am learning about yoga of course, and about India, and, perhaps mostly, about me in India. So, I had a very quiet morning in ... read more




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