trip to India

I'm not quite sure if i told anyone this but when I travelled to India - Goa (a beautiful little place along the west coast below Bombay / Mumbai) I stayed in this share house and every morning i would get up early and go down to Vagatore beach and have breaky and go for a stroll until one morning whilst taking a journey around the rocks to cross over to another beach to meet a friend I smelt a horrible smell. I thought perhaps a cow must have fallen from the cliffs overhead and died, i was looking to see if I could find the source of this horrid smell and to my horror I found a dead body - human. At first everything seemed so surreal and I wasn't sure what to do - who do I tell, should i tell anyone etc will someone maybe think I had something to do with it. I felt frozen whilst staring at this body and then I was slightly curious, who was it? what was it doing here? I realised it was a female foreigner, just like myself. She had been floating in the water and drifted ashore maybe a day or two later, I won't go intoto many  details about the state of her body - it was quite shocking. I felt sad and nervous and scared all at once and decided to return to where I had eaten breakfast and inform the Indian guys that I knew there what I had discovered. I think I must have seemed quite casual but honestly it would have been that I was still trying to take it all in. Anyway the story i got later from the guys who spoke to the police was, she was a Swedish tourist only my age (which at the time was 21) and they weren't quite sure about whether or not her death was an accident i.e. drowning, and that they would investigate further. Later that evening all I could think about was, did her family ever find out, who was sad about her departure, why did this happen to such a young girl etc, and it gave me a little kick in the ass to remind me that life is precious and that death is no closer to the aged as it is to the young. We need to treasure that thought and make the most out of the time we have on this crazy planet.

Jo

P.S. My story is quite long and a little intense but I needed to get it off my chest and share, it's one of the first things I think about when I remember my 3 months in India.

There appears to be two of me... sorry, dont know how i managed that. Effy, could you please delete one of my accounts. I cant figure out how to.
:D

There is an Indian film festival starting Wednesday at the Nova. Don't know any details, just remembered reading it in a newspaper today.
Oooooooh.

EBook tips

Now that I know that it is easy to PRINT sections from eBooks, but tricky to SAVE from eBooks - except page by page or copy and paste into a Word doc - my life is transformed. Thanks for that info.

I have another tip...Effy's asked us a number of questions...use the SEARCH function to look for mentions of the terms she's listed...I'm not suggesting you shouldn't read the whole article...but this helps locate each term easily.
Sarah.

Borobudur

Here's UNESCO's site for this astonishing place: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/592
I think you can get 360 degree panoramas, but I think that might be beyond my current broadband speed until 1 Sept!

How could such a place be built? I think that about many of the world's enduring buildings.
Walking through this built madala would be like walking thorugh the universe.

If I could attach a document a few years ago an accquaintance sent me a vivd description of his visit to Borodudur and how he was completely overwhelmed by the crowds, heat humid, its size and the detail of its decoration.

Sarah.

Did you know??!

My sister and I were talking.. about INDIA! And she told me that the man that became Buddha 'awakened one', was none other then Siddartha Gautama.

Thought you might want to know that...

silk Road

Any one got a good map of the silk road? Surely lots of ideas travelled back and forth along here? Sarah.

Week 6 reading take two

Sorry if I confused anyone. The links for the week 6 readings are below.

Harvey - Introduction Part 1

Harvey - Introduction Part 2

There was also a further reading listed and the link for that is:-

Heine-Geldern - Conceptions of State and Kingship in South-East Asia

I think I have it right now.

Oops last week's strike has effected the weekly readings

Hi the Harman article is for week 7. This week's reading is Peter Harvey's article on Buddhism
Greg.....sorry about the mix-up

Week 6 reading

The link for the week 6 reading is below:-

Harman - Hindu Devotion

This is an ebook so you should be able to print out the pages you need at home. Pages needed are 99-121. You will need your ID number and PIN to access this record.

Any problems - there is a copy at the Info desk you can photocopy.

I'll be in touch next week with reading 7.

new film on Tibet

I just saw this and thought some of you may be interested. It can be viewed at the URL below.

"'Recollecting Tibet' - Documentaries Memories: Chronicles from acamera: A perpetual History.Over three years from 2005 to 2008, Photophormations worked with theTibetan government living in exile in Dharamsala, India making'Recollecting Tibet'. The Documentary examines and questions thestate of the Tibetan people living away from the spiritual homeland,surrounded by westernization and how tourism has been assimilatedinto their culture. The film travels to Tibet documenting the Chineseoccupation and the current climate of oppression. With religiouspractises being restricted in Tibet by the Chinese and many Tibetanwomen financially forced into prostitution, how can the Tibetanspreserve their heritage? The documentary travels to Kathmandu to hearfirst hand accounts from Tibetans escaping into Nepal each year byrisking their lives on the treacherous journey crossing over theHimalayas. Traversing through differing locations and times, the filmbecomes a visual chronicle of stories and events undertaken by oneobserver and camera. The narration reflects back upon the historieswitnessed leading up to the demonstration in March 2008 and beyond tothe perpetual past and future histories of the Tibetans. [...]Photophormations is a small non profit organisations: aninvestigative team who work in unstable environments around the worldproducing documentary, journalism, photojournalism and promotionalmedia for individual groups, NGO and organisations."Supplied note:"Hello Photophormations has just finished our documentary on TheTibetan situation which has been made over the last 3 years. To watchfilm go to link: [at the URL below]. We worked with the TibetanGovernment and many organisation's like the TYC and TWA inDharamsala. We would like to offer the film for your use in any wayyou wish to help promote the Tibetan situation during this time ofthe Chinese Olympics to help show what is happening in Tibet now. Thefilm has been on-line [at http://www.munen-mushin.com/tibetfilm.html- ed.] for the last 3 days [i.e. since 15 Aug 2008 - ed.], and causeda massive reaction world wide [...]. If you would like a copy [on DVD- ed.] please fill out the attached form [Not attached to thisabstract. However, it can be obtained from(k69hagakure--at--yahoo.co.uk) - ed.] and we can get you a copy. Wehave screenings on 17 differing [sic] television channels so fararound the world from Japan to Canada. [...] - ks."URL http://www.munen-mushin.com/film%20tibet.html

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but its a professional range and its hot so its ok

i urge u to check the names of all the other polishes for a laugh

omg who bumps online, hello this isnt facebook

anyway.................. india ,india

if anyone wants to try some really good authentic indian food which comes to your table perfect every time! with darling waiters!
check out the delhi hut in sunshine!!
delish!

the William Harman reference

I received this email from Ivan regarding the Harman article. He seemed to have no problems printing it... Today I was able to log on to access the E-book using my normal library pin. I was able to utilise the option of printing more than one page at a time, a problem that encountered during the class. I clicked "Print" and a new window opened in which it gave me 2 options. The first one to put in the page numbers I wanted to print and the second option was to print each chapter individually.So it seems to have worked here at home without any problems, although 30 pages is alot of printer ink. Ivan

दलिस्तान Dalitstan reference

Unfortunately i couldn't find the original article by Amarag Ganesan titled `One Hindu race Theory debunked', which appeared at the followingly URL http://www.dalitstan.org/journal/hinduvata/htv000/one_hrtd.html
But try the following link. It certainly seems to be the same article;

http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/events/nwav34/Abstracts/Samant&Ahmad.pdf

mera dosht

Indus Valley

This is a sight i found roughly a year ago with quite a few photos of the archeological digs there, if your interested have a look. http://www.mohenjodaro.net/


Effy i couldn't find that sight you told me about, the official one for Dravida Nadu, could you link it in here for me plz :D thanx

Nail Polish

Did you know the name of your blog is also a nail polish range?

Nail Polish

Heh, hi

/bump :D

Week 4 reading

Here is a link to your week 4 reading. Unfortunately because of its' length it is broken up into three parts.

A brief history of India (part 1)

A brief history of India (part 2)

A brief history of India (part 3)


See you next week for the week 5 reading.

All your library needs

Hi everyone,

This is Greg from the library (also known as the guy with the long hair). If you need any assistance with accessing your readings on e-reserve don't hesitate to come to the information desk. I'm always happy to help.
Enjoy your "Curry up don't be late" experience.

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Welcome Tradition and Modernity students.
The aim of the blog is simply to promote and facilitate on line discussion between students, and the posting of other items of interest that contribute to our exploration of South Asian traditions and modernities.