I was just about to start updating my blog when Poornima called for me to quickly come outside. I could the fireworks as I grabbed my flip-flops and my camera. There was a festival parade slowly crossing one of the busiest interesections in the neighborhood! Apparently there is a festival tonight through […]

Hi Dad and Tom! I hope you have found your way to my website! I am posting this photo of a temple in Bangalore for you. These are as common as gas stations in the US. It feels like there is one on every corner. So beautiful! Love, adi

Wednesday after classes, I accompanied Laura and Jeannia back to their homestay, located in Hosakerehalli Village. This is a neighborhood in Bangalore now, although it used to be a separate village until Bangalore sprawl grew around it. There is a large hill there that offers amazing views of the city. I thought […]

Just a hour or so outside of Bangalore, near the waters of the Cauvery River, the sprawl and dust and noise of Bangalore’s traffic subsides and a different, older India emerges. My eyes and camera soak in the welcome green hues, and I briefly wonder about this back-breaking work — whether done in antebellum […]

Arielle looking at a positive TB stain with microbiologist during a tour of John Hopkin’s Sagar Apollo Private Hospital.

This is Bangalore…

And this is Bangalore…

These are two sides of the exact same street.  I am not kidding.  I did not move.  I only photographed left, then right.

sunset from stone hill, much like Atlanta’s stone mountain (swapping the confederate generals carving for a hindu temple, on the left.)

a tree that reminded me of a fractal.

does this look artsy or poor-quality?  you decide!

In the middle of the noise and haze of hectic bangalore is a 300acre oasis of calm and beauty called the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens. For seven rupees, you can walk the gardens, and climb atop a 350 year old silk cottonwood tree that has become my favorite tree in […]

After our break because of Monday’s “bundh,” today’s busy schedule was somethat tiring for me. We split into two groups to visit 2 different charitable hospitals. These visits will be contrasted with visits to state-run hospitals and private specialty hospitals later in the program. The charitable hopsital I visited was called Sri […]

Hi Everyone! I am waving to you with my Mehindi-decorated hand. On Saturday I went “visiting” to a few different homes, and was lucky enough to join a party of some female IHP students and their homestay ’sisters’ and ‘mothers’ who hired a Mehindi artist to come to their living room. One […]