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.