Monthly Archives: July 2011

In what will certainly be, in the end, one of the highlights of the trip, Subha and Nilayan took us to Kumartuli, a 400-year old artisan village, a pottery center (Natalie heaven!) in northern Kolkata. There, craftsmen spend 2-3 months … Continue reading →

The Times of India seems to be following us around and doing a story on whatever we happen to be doing at the moment: Skilled+labourers+abandon+Kumartuli+before+Puja+season. Heads up, Times reporters. We are off to Santiniketan for the weekend. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiniketan)

At St. John’s school, some of the girls opt to take English as a first language. It’s NOT their first language; they just choose to approach it as such. It is essentially an advanced class, at about the level of … Continue reading →

I love pictures of doors–usually I take photos of doors to historic authors’ houses (Emily Dickinson and the like). Yesterday, at Kumartuli, I shot a few doors (and doorways):

So much to catch up on and to reflect on. For your edification and reading pleasure, I offer up a proposed “table of contents:” visiting with Subha; The Marble Palace; The River Ganges/Hooghly; a Bollywood film; teaching Emily Dickinson in … Continue reading →

untitled, a photo by A Teachers Tale on Flickr.

marble_palace, a photo by A Teachers Tale on Flickr.

Quiz Tournament! This is a big day for St. John’s Diocesan. The National Quizmaster is in charge and is, apparently quite the entertaining host. Mrs. Chrestien asked that this year he not allow the students to come onstage and dance. … Continue reading →

It’s quiz day at St. John’s and none of us (Subha, Ashu, me) have any duties, so Subha has gotten permission for us to go out. We do some shopping (FabIndia for clothes and Crossword, a bookstore) and then head … Continue reading →

Monday; so glad to be back to school. It is, after all, the reason we’ve come, and it seems so meet so sporadically. Now all classes are shortened to ½ hour to allow time in the school day to practice … Continue reading →