Alleppey Beach Sunset

The Taj is Really All That and Imperfect, too!

May 4th 2008
Hello friends! It’s been awhile hasn’t it? What follows is my really long summary of all I did while traveling through India in relative anonymity. I wanted to shake up my system and get out of the sedentary state I cultivated in Bhutan. I fear if I stayed in Bhutan any longer, I might have become tragically too attached and never fulfill my obligations to return to Bellingham (it was really t ... read more

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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 in... ... read more

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Eric Vermeers

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Crossroads In The Himalaya: Buddhist Communities Between Cultural Conservation & Neo-Liberalism. On this Adventure Learning Grant I traveled to Thailand for the 3rd Conference on Gross National Happiness and am traveling in Himalayan communities (Bhutan and India's Himachel Pradesh and Ladakh) to compile a multi-media narrative impression of the interaction of these unique cultural systems within a global economic political structure that provides new challenges to traditional cultural values. Through volunteerism with indigenous NGOs working on issues of development and ... full info

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