Banks and I ventured into the city one night last week to attend a lecture one night followed by a panel discussion the next. The lecture was given by one of the best-known journalists in India, Kalpana Sharma (look her up, she's incredible) on the shortcomings in Indian media regarding coverage of minorities. She's worked all over Indian print news and currently has a column in the Hindu. The following night's panel included her and five other renowned women in Indian media--from actresses to anchors--discussing the evolving role of women in Indian media. In true upper-class Indian fashion, the event was lavishly catered and held in a beautiful art gallery. The picture above was taken behind a news camera, and the woman in the background is Kalpana.
Here's the full panel!
And now on to something entirely different...my room! Or my half, at least.
This is Sally--if you've read previous posts, you'll recognise her as Hakon's baby which Andi and I were delegated to decorate. Painted to match the rest of the indian autos... :)
Andi actually did learn to drive it--which is really quite impressive, considering it's manual with a slippery first gear and lacks an odometer, a speedometer and a gas guage.... :) The dew rag Hakon's wearing was a present from Jens in Goa and has since become his scootering uniform. We're the classy students of Tagore.
Banks and I ventured into the city one night last week to attend a lecture one night followed by a panel discussion the next. The lecture was given by one of the best-known journalists in India, Kalpana Sharma (look her up, she's incredible) on the shortcomings in Indian media regarding coverage of minorities. She's worked all over Indian print news and currently has a column in the Hindu. The following night's panel included her and five other renowned women in Indian media--from actresses to anchors--discussing the evolving role of women in Indian media. In true upper-class Indian fashion, the event was lavishly catered and held in a beautiful art gallery. The picture above was taken behind a news camera, and the woman in the background is Kalpana.
Here's the full panel!
And now on to something entirely different...my room! Or my half, at least.
This is Sally--if you've read previous posts, you'll recognise her as Hakon's baby which Andi and I were delegated to decorate. Painted to match the rest of the indian autos... :)
Andi actually did learn to drive it--which is really quite impressive, considering it's manual with a slippery first gear and lacks an odometer, a speedometer and a gas guage.... :) The dew rag Hakon's wearing was a present from Jens in Goa and has since become his scootering uniform. We're the classy students of Tagore.
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