Posted by Amanda As we leave India, I believe the signs on the sides of the tourist buses are perfectly true: Incredible India India is incredible.It is a land of stark contrasts. It is beautiful and ugly, colorful and bleakly brown, delicious and dangerous, rich and poor. For me it was best seen when we'd drive by neighborhoods of thatched roof shacks with trash filled streets and see beautiful sarees hanging on the clothes lines. Somehow the colors were ...

by Noah Well, if I had any lingering doubts about whether I love India, or whether the poverty and desperation, the dirt and the chaos were just too much for me, today tilted things finally and inspiringly into the "love it" category. We rose bright and early to head to the Student Union, the meeting place for our Field Program. I was again the leader, though, with Amanda, two faculty members, and a librarian on the trip as well, I was, at best the fi...

Posted by Amanda They say never visit India for the first time. So far, I love it! I was getting leery of it for fear of getting sick and all the talk of the dirt, the men trying to touch me (called eve-teasing), and the hawkers. I was actually thinking it might be worse than China. Our diplomatic briefing made me miss Cape Town and the hassles of getting everyone off the ship didn't help the situation. Plus the dock is loaded with cars ready to be shipped a...