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CLEARLY COMPASSIONATE: Seeing the Dalai Lama lights the way to true compassion

Kiva Bottero·February 13, 2013
Young poplar trees scatter the sunlight into patches of shade in the courtyard of the Main Temple in Dharamsala, India—home...
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WILD LIFE: Making friends with Nature in India

Jane Olivier·February 4, 2013
It rained just enough to  raise the humidity a couple of notches. The body went for a stroll, the mind...
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I AM A WOMAN IN INDIA: A poem by Chandni Singh

Chandni Singh·February 1, 2013
I have had my breasts fondled.Not by a lover,but strangers on a bus.I have been gyrated againstas I navigate the...
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LESSONS FROM INDIA: Working with rural communities in southern Rajasthan

Chandni Singh·January 25, 2013
Retrospective narrations of one’s journey can be misleading. Its linear format is inherently deceptive because an ordered layout assumes clarity...
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BREAK ALL THAT WHICH DIVIDES: Overcoming religious intolerance in India

Contributing Writer·January 10, 2013
  In a world afflicted with the rapidly spreading cancer of religious intolerance, this story of a Hindu man adopting...
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CONSCIENTIOUS STUDY: At what cost an MBA?

Contributing Writer·October 17, 2012
There's been an increasing hype about the value of an MBA in India recently. With the global economic outlook still gloomy, rising unemployment rates, an MBA has become an increasingly...
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THIKSEY MONASTERY: Ladakh offers respite from India’s busyness

Kiva Bottero·January 23, 2012
Fifty monks sit cross-legged in long rows. Their prayer books, narrow strips of thick paper bound by string, sit open in front of them. They chant the Buddhist sutras...
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LIVING IN HARMONY: Leh shows what religious tolerance is all about

Kiva Bottero·December 22, 2011
Two Muslim women in traditional attire walk past a group of Buddhist monks dressed in maroon robes. Stupas, Buddhist religious monuments...
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BORDER WALK: The tense Indo-Pak border is opening up to a brand of tourism that’s unexpectedly calm

Kiva Bottero·December 21, 2011
  Wham. I just landed a foot-high bounce off the back seat of the bus. I’m on a 10-hour coccyx-crunching...
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INTERNET WOES: The challenge of getting online in Ladakh, India

Kiva Bottero·October 20, 2011
The location is Leh, the main city in India’s northernmost frontier of Ladakh, the semi-autonomous region within the conflict-ridden Jammu and...
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ANIMAL RIGHTS: Whose streets are they anyways?

Kiva Bottero·September 28, 2011
Leh, India — By day they lay sprawled out asleep in the shade, only getting up every now and then to munch on some trash. By night they spring to life, turning the streets into a high-energy...
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CHECKMATE: Play the game with mindfulness and equanimity

Kiva Bottero·August 7, 2011
A stray cow is walking toward me. I cross the street to give it space, careful to avoid stepping on a tail of one of the many sprawled out, potentially rabid, dogs that lay on the other side.
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