“We are women, tribal women. And we are farmers. We women are the ones who work these fields. We know that there must also be women farmers in the United States and the rest of the world, and we want them to know that we are here. That is important to us.” -Lataben, Narmadaben, Ratilaben, and Sheelaben
By Isobel Chiang, 07/30/2019. Tucked precariously inside Kolkata’s Bowbazar district is Territy Bazaar, known colloquially as “Old Chinatown.” I say “precariously” because if you didn’t [...]
By Luke McCusker, 07/28/2019. In Bangalore, I met with Professor Sundar Sarukkai. The humanities have been undervalued in contemporary Indian education, sidelined in favor of [...]
By Isobel Chiang, 07/26/2019. And then, just like that, it was time to get on a plane to Kolkata. "You’re going to Kolkata?" people would [...]
By Luke McCusker, 07/21/2019. Delhi is a city within a city: Old Delhi within New Delhi. Already there is an exterior and an interior--Delhi within [...]
By Isobel Chiang, 07/17/2019. Last night, I finally had the chance to try Indian-Chinese street food. Or is it Chinese-Indian street food? As I continue [...]
By Luke McCusker, 07/15/2019. Alongside his intellectual pursuits, Martin Heidegger was a Nazi sympathizer. While the grounds for his position may have been philosophical rather [...]
By Isobel Chiang, 07/11/2019. In the Airbnb I’m currently staying in, there’s a paperback book on my nightstand. It’s called “The Sikh Gurus,” and it’s [...]
07/03/2019. The characteristics of the service industry itself determines that the service-oriented industrial structure has a lot of beneficial effects on the economic development of [...]
