Well, I just made it to India a few hours ago. The flight was delayed four five hours as we had to stop in Pakistan to refuel after being unable to land in India due to severe weather. I was glad the driver Navdanya had sent over waited for all that time it would have been very stressful to have to find a place at four in the morning when i got in.
I am staying with a couple men who are interns at Navdanya. Both of them have been working on corporate land grab issues for the last year and now one is working on issues of alternative sources of fuel. I am at the office right now. It is a bit nicer than I expected but I am itching to organize the heaps of papers and publications. I had no idea the volume of publications that came out of this office. Right now there are 5 people working here.
Right now I don't have an assignment as we haven't been able to contact the lawyer working on the cases against Monsanto. Dr. Shiva is out of town until Monday and I am confident if we don't get anything going before then, her being back will get the ball rolling. My room
I was worried trying to organize all of this from a half a world away but now that I am here I see that there is so much to do and the high level of scholarship and research will keep me motivated and engaged.
I am staying in South Delhi, which I have not spent any time in but the apartment is right next to these beautiful old ruins and a modern white temple and I look forward to spending time there after work...
I am staying with a couple men who are interns at Navdanya. Both of them have been working on corporate land grab issues for the last year and now one is working on issues of alternative sources of fuel. I am at the office right now. It is a bit nicer than I expected but I am itching to organize the heaps of papers and publications. I had no idea the volume of publications that came out of this office. Right now there are 5 people working here.
Right now I don't have an assignment as we haven't been able to contact the lawyer working on the cases against Monsanto. Dr. Shiva is out of town until Monday and I am confident if we don't get anything going before then, her being back will get the ball rolling. My room
I was worried trying to organize all of this from a half a world away but now that I am here I see that there is so much to do and the high level of scholarship and research will keep me motivated and engaged.
I am staying in South Delhi, which I have not spent any time in but the apartment is right next to these beautiful old ruins and a modern white temple and I look forward to spending time there after work...
2 comments:
I think it is AWESOME that you have started a blog to update us on your adventure. It seems so much easier than e-mail and you will have a collection of all of them to look back on.
I was also thinking today (sheesh I think a LOT) about how weird/cool it is that you are in India for the second time with a completely different mission and in a completely different envoronment. I can't wait to hear more about your summer!
P.S. did you know this blog doesn't allow anonymous comments? That means if someone doesn't have a blogger account, they can't comment. :( I have one and I used to blog on it and now everyone will be able to ready my secret blog that nobody knew about before!
Okay I am all done talking. ::sheesh::
You write very well.
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