Following In My Father’s Footsteps – Sandhya Rao – India 2008
My Fulbright experience in India in spring 2008 allowed me to reconnect and give back to my old country. Since I moved to the United States in 1989, winds of liberalization had blown over India, rapidly changing the economic, social, cultural and mass media scenes. I had seen mere glimpses of these changes during my […]
Exacting – Rebecca Kaiser Gibson – India 2011
The Center for Exact Humanities (CEH) was the department at IIIT-H, an information technology school where I was scheduled to teach a semester of Creative Writing, Poetry as a Fulbright Scholar in 2012. My second night in Hyderabad, Prakani, the young guide assigned me, announced that I was invited to meet “Sir,” Navjoti Singh, the […]
India: Where Do I Start? – Dr. Brad Wideman – India 1975
Five hundred words could never capture the sounds, the flavor of its food, its rainbow of colors nor the uniqueness of its people. In 1975, I received a 9-week Fulbright Fellowship to study the “History and Culture of India.” The trip took me from New Delhi, to Agra, to Varanasi, to Kolkata, to Chennia, and […]
Vivid Memories- Colleen A Kelly – India 1967 & 1984
In 1967, I was a young secondary school teacher, newly awarded an MA in history from St. John’s University. I decided I might try for a Fulbright study opportunity. To my surprise and pleasure I was given a place in the Institute for Indian History and Culture. This Fulbright for educators involved studying throughout the […]
Sacred Space – Gita V. Pai – India 2016
Participating on an Arte France documentary about humankind and faith as I filmed on location at the Minaksi-Sundareshvara temple in Madurai, south India would enable me to share my knowledge about the sacred space and its goddess to a broad (and global) audience in ways that my upcoming scholarly monograph about the religious site cannot. […]
Just the One – Daniel A Kelin, II – India 2019
I served as guest faculty for the National School of Drama, Theatre-in-Education wing, Tripura. Their first Fulbright-Nehru fellow. During my fellowship, an accomplished actor (Vijay) visited to teach Voice and Speech in between stints on a national TV program. One evening, he presented a one man show, which he’d been performing for 25 years with […]
Eternal Visions, Contemporary Forms; My Study with an Historic Master of Newar Repousse – Maureen T. Drdak – Nepal 2011
I first visited Nepal in 2005 where I beheld the beautiful repousse temple toranas of the Kathmandu Valley. An ancient endangered art, the Newars of the Valley are universally considered the finest practitioners of repousse—the art of hammering sheet metal into three dimensional forms. When I first gazed upon the ancient fire-gilded copper imagery of […]
Hi, Auntie! – Bernard Poole – India 2006
S A T U R D A Y , A P R I L 2 1 , 2 0 0 7 Hi, Auntie! This is cute. Every day when I walk into my class, I start out by giving my laptop and projector to a couple of the students (I call them my “technologistes du […]