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On Pavement Dwellers in Mumbai

by Bronwyn McBride | Oct 15, 2010 | India, ITKT Blogs | 0 |

Over 100 new migrants squeeze into Mumbai on a daily basis. Those counted come with official...

A weekend in God’s Own Country

by Bronwyn McBride | Oct 9, 2010 | India, ITKT Blogs | 0 |

One of the first things I observe about any place is the ratio of city to jungle. Of man-made...

A Potpourri on Mumbai’s Trains

by Bronwyn McBride | Jul 1, 2010 | India, ITKT Blogs, Spotlight | 3 |

In the stations that stretch on and on, stray dogs touch their noses to commuters’ hands, hoping for some food or love. Rats like small wolves cross the garbage goldmine in the tracks, fearless. Crows fly out of the way of...

Why India?

by Bronwyn McBride | Jun 2, 2010 | India, ITKT Blogs | 0 |

I’m in India now, on my fourth long stay. Choking on fumes and listening to car horns as I bounce in an auto-rickshaw on a pothole-studded road, I wonder why I keep coming back. It’s a question that I ask myself...

Sanchi, Buddhism By Bhopal, India

by Julian Worker | Jun 4, 2009 | India, ITKT Blogs | 0 |

Sanchi is the site of some of India’s most important Buddhist temples. The oldest of these were built by King Ashoka after he converted to Buddhism in roughly 258BCE. Altogether there are fifty monuments at Sanchi,...