Tonight's dinner in the village.
Ok, so i'm a little freaked out about holding a massacred chicken.
Sundeep apparently enjoys it.
Deepak cooking the chicken in our village house.
Sundeep and the BOYZ!
More of Sundeep uncle
Manik, Sundeep, Rupesh, Devanand
The Yerendi Boys before our trip to Anandavan.
Lunch at Anandavan.
Inspecting the Handlooms.
Spinning cloth with cycle wheels.
The Power loom section. (These people are mainly lepers operating the machinery).
Ravan Anandavan Style.
Making carpets.
On a tour of the campus.
Recycling Plastic into new uses.
Vinod and an old man.
Anandavan's interesting inventions: this is a seed and fertilizer spreader.
Some of the sayings at Anandavan.
the swaranandavan talent show.
visiting a check dam made of recycled materials.
All of the boys at one of the Anandavan Check Dams.
Devanand showing off the tight pants.
Taking the guys out pedal boating.
the road trip back home.
photos from a tribal wedding in Korchi.
the UNICEF Microplanning project: Building a soakpit to drain sewage.
digging soakpits to improve sanitation.
My scorpion savers.
The final Indicorps workshop: Race Amazing.
Ahmedabad.
Learning the Charkha at Gandhi Vidyapeeth, A-bad.
Nupur.
the fellows at a children's park.
Nishant, Christina, and Lakshmi racing in the children's park.
Dharmesh lending a helping? hand.
Wall ball.
having dinner at SEWA cafe.
helping prepare dinner.
The Indicorps closing ceremony.
Nishant: The Rock Paper Scissor champion.
touring a village piligrimage site.
A jungle lake and pilgirmage site near Kurkheda.
A stone temple.
Dad giving out candy at the Yerendi "Jeevan Shala", Life School.
My living space in Korchi.
Rakhi with my host sister, Bharathi.
Azoba (Dr. Satish's grandfather) and me.
Dr. Satish (left) at my final dinner.
Giving my final speech in Marathi.
the Yerendi Youth Group and their parting gift to me.
Ashish and a miniature taj mahal that lit up neon blue.
Saying goodbye to everyone.
My NGO, Amhi Amachya Arogyasthi
Baba Amte and my Dad.
trekking on the Yerendi mountain.
an earlier picture of me, when i had a fatter face. last october.
Aaji (Shubadathai's mother), Swati and Bharathi.
the sept. 2005 anandavan trip with me, swati and baba amte
Vikas Amte, Swati and Me.
Pictures of Anandavan from our trip last October
the enormous anandvan cows, they have their own dairy.
the experimental houses, now put in practice.
Anandavan houses.
A biogas tank: basically poop used to power electricity and cooking stoves.
Anandavan's main goal: combat the stigma around leprosy, and rehabilitate leprosy patients into mainstream society.
One of Baba Amte's quotes, located on the main plaza.
Plastic bottles waiting to be recycled into cement, pillow stuffing, and artwork.
They recycle the plastic and turn it into..
A project supported by two US NRI groups.
At anandavan they make all of their own equipment, including these three wheelers for the leprosy patients.
Swati and I trying out the tricycles for leprosy patients.
Vikas amte accepting the Templeton Prize on behalf of his father, from Prince Philip.
The song and dance show all done by leprosy patients: Swarandavan.
natural scenery around my area.
The road is used for cars as well.
But it's easy to forget that, because most of the villages send their herds out to pasture via the highway.
honking at the bovine.
a man-made lake, navegaon bandh.
me, in october 2005, at navegaon.
a rally for women's rights.
the jama masjid in Delhi.
and anna berman.
anna's parents.
at the gandhi smurthi
the site of gandhi's assassination.
gandhi's alleged last words "Hey Ram", (Oh God)
the place where Gandhi used to sit and teach.
gandhi's last footsteps.
pictures of yerendi.
photos taken by Nida Ghouse in Yerendi.
Agricultural laborers in the yerendi fields.
the yerendi water tank.
how artistic.
Ashish (standing) and devanand.
The sunset. I used to go here a lot and sit and think.
Vijay Pratap, Rajni Bakshi, her mother, Nida and Sheila.
and me too!
Victoria Terminus (Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus) BOMBAY (Mumbai)
a temple in jaipur.
sundeep in jaipur.
mountain-top perspective of jaipur.
a jaipur palace.
the akshaya patra, a place in jaipur where they make food for all of the government school children.
one of the schools where the food is being served.
cleaning up our area for holi.
sundeep and his creativity.
Vincent, err Sundeep, about to chop his ear off.
Sewagram Gandhi Ashram.
gandhi's house.
a gandhian in the making.
Gandhi's bed.
this is where he sit and fought the empire.
sundeep blaspheming Bapuji's commode.
makes you think.
learning the charkha, a principle of swadeshi.
my crazy digital uncles.
uncle and grandmother's birthday
Prakash Amte's tribal hosptial in Gadhiroli district.
Dr. Prakash has pet crocodiles, leopards, monkeys, bears...
On the train back from the Bombay Indicorps workshop. That's Nishant on my right, not Sundeep.
Nupur, Alesha
Nishant, Prashant, me, Christina.
Asha, Juie, Nupur.
At the Indicorps workshop.
at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, my dad's alma mater.
Medha Patkar, the invincible.
the rally after the NAPM conference.
Salim, Sush
My room.
the view from my window.
my balcony.
Ganesh Chaturthi or something. I forgot.
Chandrapur.
The Chapel at the sisters of the Holy Spirit.
the herbal medicine catalogue.
a women's self help group and their nursery.
the mobile health clinic.
natural beauty.
an NGO staff meeting.
gifts for diwali.
dr. satish and shubhada thai. the NGO directors.
microplanning in Ranvahi.
my speech to the english literary association. i think the only people who understood english were seated behind me.
an adolescent women's group meeting.
bringing my laptop to Ranvahi, one of the villages.
the shop of my good friends in yerendi.
Kabbadi competitions. This is the Ranvahi team.
Kabbadi is an Indian game that's like a mix of wrestling and Red Rover.
the little kids were so cute, so determined.
on the way back to Kurkheda from Ranvahi
two of my good friends at the NGO: Kalyani (left) and Swati
Joseph sar and his daughter. Joseph sar was another Malayalee Catholic and he taught English at the local college. I went with his family to Church on occasion, they were like my Malu home away from home.
Dikshabhumi, the place where Ambedkar and his followers converted to Buddhism. They were from the Dalit caste.
New Year's 2006, celebrations with the NGO in Yerendi
Azoba (Dr. Satish's father) enjoying the meal.
and of course aaji (Shubhadathai's mother)>
the holi bonfire. we collected all the nearby trash and burned it.
Microplanning in the Korchi villages: Making Social Maps.
izamsahay, my coworker and friend, getting ready to accept the new tractor from the district ceo.
inaugurating the new tractor for the village.
in Saleh village.
my friend Manish in one of the Korchi villages. Notice the architecture of these old adivasis houses.
more adivasi architecture.
making pound rice.
making the wedding pole, a tradition in Gond adivasi weddings.
the wedding party.
the groom.
the band.
the women dancing at night.
dancing and singing.
placing the new wedding pole, signifying the marriage, in the courtyard of the house.
the two poles, signifying two marriages have taken place in this house.
the wedding feast.
Sheila, Josh, Dr. Abhay Bang, Meghana and I at SEARCH: Society for Education Action and Research in Community Health.
Josh and I joking around at Anandavan.
Dropping Josh and Meghana off in their plush first class train compartment.
sundeep and i tried to be stowaways, but they weren't having it.
Ashish's mom, she just caught fish from the village pond.
Sushil learning to farm.
Now it's Sundeep's turn.
c'mon turn that plow.
who's driving whom?
ahh, the expert regains the reigns.
admiring a hard two minute's work.
good friendly beast, good friendly beast.
Selby, Colleen and a friend in Ranvahi.
Sewing up our injured puppy.
Pradeep holding the puppy down.
replanting the rice saplings.
"chickal", stirring up the mud to prepare the fields for replanting the rice stalks.
replanting is traditionally a women's job.
Swati at the base of a hilltop temple.
the view from the temple, right near Kurkheda.
Sadhu Sushil
man that beard is crazy.
Oh Hi Swati!
contemplating my return to the US.
and the temple priest.
YAY Pradeep! Time to get up. Nice lungi.
