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You should run for office

By Ananda | Published: May 8, 2010

At least that’s what one of my former students told me at Tata-Dhan Academy’s third convocation, during which I got to dress up in a very white shirt and a long white dhoti.

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The Gita in Pictures

By Ananda Mahto | Published: July 10, 2008

Here’s something that some random portion of my readers might be interested in. And don’t worry. I haven’t turned all religious. I have just always liked the pictures—they’re part of my childhood days… That… and I wanted to try out the gallery feature in WordPress to see what it is all about… The quality here [...]

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Compassion and Empathy and Sticks and Stones

By Ananda Mahto | Published: December 8, 2007

For people in a country that is supposed to be based on Gandhian principles of tolerance and pacifism and where people won’t eat meat because all animals are God’s creatures or whatever, most Indians I’ve observed sure seem to have a strange way of showing compassion for animals. It looks like a special kind of [...]

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The Birth of Mithun

By Ananda Mahto | Published: September 18, 2007

There are times when India really makes me laugh…. … I mean, other than things like watching Bollywood videos where it seems like people are always going through weird mating rituals replete with bright costumes, head bobbing, and peculiar synchronized dancing…. … or like the time that a student asked me to download a song [...]

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Sat. Jan 27 – In Delhi, living like royalty…

By Ananda Mahto | Published: March 18, 2007

What an interesting morning. We all woke up very well-rested from our comfortable business hotel, but nevertheless, were dissatisfied with the pricing, location, and so on. We were most dissatisfied by their treatment of our driver, however. They wouldn’t provide a room for him (most hotels make some form of accommodations for drivers) and when [...]

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Fri. Jan 26 – Driving to Delhi… and a little bit of tourism….

By Ananda Mahto | Published: March 11, 2007

Good roads really do make a difference. The drive from Jaipur to Delhi was totally painless and quick. However, it seemed to be very disconcerting to Henny, who really didn’t like all the big trucks. She actually said at one point how terrible it was, and how she would much rather take the small bumpy [...]

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Thurs. Jan 25 – Jaipur forts and shopping

By Ananda Mahto | Published: March 7, 2007

Henny wanted to know the whole time in Jaipur, how can people who built these impressive forts and who were so smart still be taken over in battle? I don’t think I was paying enough attention to the guides or reading enough of the stuff at the sites we visited to find out, but they [...]

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Wed. Jan 24 – Forts and Observatories in Jaipur

By Ananda Mahto | Published: March 6, 2007

Axle’s not feeling too hot today. She seems to have a pretty horrible cough and just sounds generally groggy. I’m actually somewhat surprised that she is the first to get sick, but I don’t know if it’s a stomach thing or a chest thing. She thinks it’s just a chest thing, which may actually be [...]

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