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Sitting With The Masters - A Day With A Family Of Master Indian Wood Carvers
I was picked up in the morning by the master wood carver, Umesh Singh, and we rode off on his motorcycle through the busy Jaipur streets to his home in a little neighborhood near the public commodities market. Umesh is a traditional Indian wood carver and makes his living from carving and selling little statuettes and motifs of idealized Asian spiritual figures as well as the animals that once roamed the region freely.
Wade P. Shepard
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The New Mask of India
On September 15th, 2006 C. Mann, a representative of the Voices NGO, delivered a lecture at Global College's South Asia Center about how communities throughout India are seemingly benefited by their ability to access the newfound global communications infrastructure. He pressed the idea that traditional India is strengthened through its inclusion into the "global" culture and economy and that the Indian people are empowered through this new system of commerce and...
Wade P. Shepard
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Erik The Broken Hearted And The Perils Of Tropical Volcanoes
In swinging hammocks with grande sized beers in hand, my childhood friend Erik and I looked up at the soaring peak of Volcan Ometepe. Rising sharply out of the placid calmness of Lago de Nicaragua, the volcano looked impeccable, unconquerable- dare I say, Godly. "You can go up there if you want," Erik told me, "but I am going to sit right down here drinking my beer watching your monkey ass climb that mountain." I took this as a challenge, and Erik's comfortable solace...
Wade P. Shepard
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The New World Looks Ahead Not Back - The Elderly Left Behind With Their Times In The New India
We piled into a mini-bus and took off through the traffic wretched, exhaust poisoned streets of Bangalore. It took us over an hour to get to the outskirts of the city where we came upon the retirement home. We pulled into a long driveway and rode passed a cluster of workers assembling a new complex of buildings. An elderly man, who was the manager of the retirement home, came up to me and offered a greeting that sounded something like, "Welcome to Shanty-town!" I just...
Wade P. Shepard
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Industrialization in India
In A.K.N. Reddy's essay, "Technology, Development, and the Environment: An Analytical Framework,"which was included in Ramachandra Guha's Social Ecology, he asserted that modern societies are developing and utilizing technologies that are perilous to their environmental and social ecosystems without recognition of the inherent risks. He also addresses how the technologies of the developed world are, "...in the process of massive transfer to the developing...
Wade P. Shepard
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Archaeology in South India
At the apex of this hill was a flat area which was the location of the pre-historic habitation that we came to visit. It was on a small level plan, no bigger than three or four acres and it had a few square test units dug into it. As a field-archaeologist myself, with six years of professional experience, I intuitively began inspecting the work of my Indian brethren. The site appeared to have been left dormant for a while so I could not, nor really did I wish to, make any value judgments...
Wade P. Shepard
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