Namascar

This lady works at Shishu Bhavan, the orphanage I have been volunteering in. Everyday she is basking in the sun, folding laundry on the roof. (namascar is the typical Bengali greeting, and she was the first one to teach me it)

INDIAN JONES

November 7th 2004
It has been about a week since I landed in Kolkata, although, I feel like I have been here longer because I have been stretched in ways I had not anticipated. I am surrounded by beautiful people -- who give their time, patience, and efforts to care for people that were once forgotten about and overlooked, and ask for nothing in return. For some, Kolkata is a passing through point where the poverty ... 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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