Collecting Postcards this Week
I’m heading back to the tea garden today. The farmers in Ambote, the hamlet where we had the meetings I reported on, are going to be dropping off their postcard responses today. I have meetings lines up for the whole week in other hamlets. The goal is to collect all the responses by the 6th. The NGO has a great meeting with their board over the weekend where they shared the postcard booklets. The board was very enthusiastic, which has trickled down to the NGO staff. I still don’t have a dedicated translator. That’s becoming part of the adventure.
Did you see that the Grokhaland agitation make the New York Times? It’s in the Travel section! Ha! Have a look… Kiran Desai’s novel mentioned in the first and last paragraphs of the article has been met with heated debate here. I finally went and got myself a copy which I plan to read this week.
More when I’m back on line.
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