Christian James ‘14, Jagori Grameen Fellow

So here I stand, my fellowship term nearing its end, finally marching deeper into the mountains that had been under my feet the whole time. Shamu, who will serve as our guide, joins us on the pavement just uphill from my residence.

“Kriṣṇu bhai, namaste!”

Christian James ‘14, Jagori Grameen Fellow

Transcribed from my personal diary: an entry from 12/25/2014

“ कोलकता –

never before have I felt British India, about which I have been reading in Paul Scott’s novels, so close to the surface of my environment. It may be that the experience of Christmas has a special effect of emphasizing the history of British Raj, but it is an emphasis on its permanence, which only two hundred years of direct rule could establish