By nandan on February 27, 2009
Today it was the inauguration of the conference. We reached there around 9 o’clock. The conference inauguration was held in a very big hall. I think there were almost a thousand people present there and most of them were sex workers from different parts of India and abroad. I had never seen that big number of sex workers at one [...]
Posted in HIV and AIDS | Tagged durbar, kolkata, sex work india, sex workers india, sonagachi
By nandan on February 26, 2009
I arrived in Kolkatta an hour ago and now at Durbar’s office . I have spent only an hour in Kolkatta and my cream color T-shirt is almost blcak now. Its fucking polluted city. There is smoke everywhere. It seems like Bengali people like dark colors a lot. Taxis are dark yellow, buses are dark green, builddings [...]
Posted in Business, HIV and AIDS, Travel | Tagged kolkatta, pollution, sex conference Kolkatta
By nandan on February 25, 2009
I met Seranna today at her hotel and talked her about two hours. We talked about how the shooting went last day. She said that they were supposed to shoot the sex workers at G.B. Road but could not because the sex workers and brothel owner did not allow her. She just talked them, actually [...]
Posted in Business, HIV and AIDS | Tagged documentary filming, sex, sex work india, sex workers india
By nandan on February 24, 2009
Finally I arrived Delhi this morning and went straight to Chandan’s place and then to see Chottala. Seranna had asked me to meet her at 4 o’clock so I could not spend much time with Chottala. I was not happy leaving him. I was supposed to meet Seranna at G.B. Road, brothel no. 71. Chandan [...]
Posted in Business, HIV and AIDS | Tagged g b road, sex, sex work india, sex workers india
By nandan on February 17, 2009
I am hosting a couple from the US. They had contacted me through my website. They want to stay in Varanasi for fifteen days. They had already been to Varanasi before fifteen days but they came again just to relax. They were looking for a Hindi teacher and music classes. Christina wanted to learn flute [...]
Posted in Groovy Ganges Guest House, Studies in India | Tagged family stay varanasi, flute classes varanasi, Hindi classes varanasi, hindi lesson varanasi, home stay varanasi, tabla classes varanasi
By nandan on February 13, 2009
We organized a workshop at Gopi Radha Girls School in Varanasi where Sanjeevani Booti’s social workers and volunteers did a presentation about HIV and AIDS. We had been thinking of it for a long time and it finally became true. We did presentations for the 9th and 11th class girls. We wanted to do it [...]
Posted in HIV and AIDS | Tagged HIV and AIDS in Varanasi
By nandan on February 8, 2009
I went to the NACO (National AIDS control Organization) center at BHU with Claire today to get some data about HIV patients in Varanasi for our upcoming workshop at schools. First of all the counselor did not agree to give us any data, and told us to contact the head of the department first and [...]
Posted in HIV and AIDS | Tagged HIV patients India, HIV testing center varanasi
By nandan on February 3, 2009
I have got a project from an American institution that makes videos to make people aware of HIV and AIDS. Their name is AIDSvideos.org. They want me to make videos for them in every possible Indian language. They have twenty seven different kinds of scripts in five different Indian languages so it seems like a [...]
Posted in Business, HIV and AIDS | Tagged aids videos