By nandan on April 20, 2008
A German girl named Sophia wrote me on couchsurfing for meeting. She asked me about Hindi classes in Varanasi. At the same time I had a tenant named Dave from Fresno who was learning Hindi with Professor Virendra Singh so I introduced Sophia to Dave. She was doing anthropology research from University of Berlin and [...]
Posted in Business, Studies in India | Tagged aghori, anthropology research varanasi, cremation in varanasi, doams, moksha, sadhus, Varanasi
By nandan on April 10, 2008
Once were passing by Coke’s plant in Mehndiganj and saw one house just next to it. My researcher friend was very much interested in interviewing someone near the plant so she told me to ask people if they would permit us to interview them. We were right in front of Coke plant and as I [...]
Posted in Coca-Cola | Tagged Coke issue varanasi, coke mehndiganj, mehndiganj issue, translator varanasi
By nandan on April 7, 2008
It was last day of conference and protest day in Mehndiganj and we wanted to cover it as much as we could. As we reached near the conference place, I saw more than 10 cops sitting there. I had seen the video of protest in the year 2006 when Police bate protesters hard. I was [...]
Posted in Coca-Cola | Tagged coca-cola mehndiganj, Coke issue varanasi, Kaladera
By nandan on April 6, 2008
On the 29th we moved to Mehndiganj around 12′o clock. I was so excited for Medha Patekar. When I reached there, I found Regional Pollution Control officer giving speech. I was shocked to see him. I just couldn’t believe it. He is anti Lok Samiti guy. I had interviewed him 2-3 times with other researchers [...]
Posted in Coca-Cola | Tagged Coca-Cola, mehndiganj, Varanasi
By nandan on April 6, 2008
I hired my auto rickshaw driver to take us to Mehndiganj. We went to Mehndiganj on 28th of March. We reached there and saw that there was a big conference going on. There were more than 500 people attending the conference. Amanda was shocked to see that number of people. When we reached, there was [...]
Posted in Coca-Cola | Tagged coca-cola mehndiganj, coke issue india, Coke varanasi
By nandan on April 4, 2008
I had a tenant in my home from USA. His name was Dave. He was a Biologist. He lives in Fresno, California. There was a conference going on in BHU about world environment and my tenant was also invited there to give a speech. It was his speech at 3′o clock at BHU on 28/03/2008. [...]
Posted in Groovy Ganges Guest House | Tagged Conference at BHU, Varanasi, World environment