India
sometimes I talk about India
By bluerasberry on 2007-09-10
I came back to Seattle on July 19 and I am still ill with stomach problems from India. In early August I went to the hospital on the advice of some clinic worker and had cultures done. They forwarded the test results to a clinic, and there I got a primary care doctor and through […]
Posted in health, HIV, India, Seattle | Tagged medicine, test
By bluerasberry on 2007-08-22
I talked to Nandan this morning. Before I left India I packaged thirty dvds to mail to America. Nandan sent them out along in three packages along with a fourth package containing books. Today he told me that the piracy police brought the dvd packages back to his house when they came looking for me. […]
Posted in India, legal | Tagged censorship, police
By bluerasberry on 2007-07-01
I came left Benares the night of the 28th and arrived in Delhi Friday morning. It is too hot for touts this time of year. I walked all the way through the train station and no one spoke to me. Nandan told me that I could walk to Connaught Place from the station and I […]
Posted in animal, health, India, museum, religion | Tagged Baha'i, delerium, Delhi, dinosaur, food, map, police, sickness, zoo
By bluerasberry on 2007-05-31
Chandu, the tout that Nandan used about a year back, occasionally drops by to say something crazy. Usually he says that he much some rich foreigner, and that they want to buy a lot of silk without asking questions. Sometimes he takes about opening a silk shop, which he says is the surest way to […]
Posted in India, religion | Tagged astrology, delerium, morality, sex
By bluerasberry on 2007-05-29
Krista’s research on Coca-Cola is proceeding according to her hopes. The research, as I have mentioned before, is that a Coca-Cola manufacturing and bottling facility near Varanasi is taking ground watch such that local farmers have none for their crops. Also the plant is accused of not maintaining the law’s requisite percentage of full-time permanent […]
Posted in India, research | Tagged megacorp, Mehdiganj
By bluerasberry on 2007-05-25
Nandan and I went to Ayodhya, the birthplace and royal home of Lord Ram. He was actually going to a funeral for a friend’s grandfather, but Ayodhya was nearby. I wanted to join him for both events. Ram is one of the most popular Hindu deities. He was an avatar of Lord Vishnu and the […]
Posted in animal, India, religion | Tagged Ayodhya, death, Hinduism, Islam, monkey
By bluerasberry on 2007-05-18
Miss Krista, an American PhD candidate working on her thesis, has been in the house with us for a couple of days now and she is everything I want Nandan’s houseguests to be. She has research to do, she can tend to all her own needs, and she nows how and when to ask for […]
Posted in India, legal | Tagged bribe, license, megacorp, Mehdiganj
By bluerasberry on 2007-05-15
Dr. Ambedkar sits in Glory Originally uploaded by bluerasberry. …that means “Mayawati has returned.” Today is Tuesday. Mayawati, the Dalit (untouchable) leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party (the swastika elephant party) in Uttar Pradesh came to office as the equivalent of governor in UP on Sunday. This is her second time in that office. For […]
Posted in India, legal | Tagged bribe, capitol, government, Lucknow, otter, park, zoo
By bluerasberry on 2007-05-13
Today in my Hindi copy I wrote sentences in unusual formats like future perfect continuous (“…will have been going”) because I wanted to be comfortable with the grammar. I continually want more and more vocabulary and my memory cannot meet my needs at the rate which would satisfy me. Tonight I go to Lucknow with […]
Posted in education, India, religion | Tagged astrology, Hindi, Hinduism
By bluerasberry on 2007-05-03
Just a quick post about side business- I have been coaching Nandan about craigslist and there are two bites, both substantial. One is a girl from Boston coming to Benares to do research for her dissertation. She wants to stay in the room for a month at Rs 3000 rupees. The going rate is Rs […]
Posted in India | Tagged business