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I have one more blog entry assigned to me and I believe I’m the last one who needs to post, so this could be the end of the SJPD blog. I’d like to use this opportunity to say goodbye and … Continue reading →

On December 6th we visited Vindhyagiri or “big hill” in Shravana Belgola. This the home the truly giant monolithic statue of Bahubali. Bahubali was a great Jain king who eventually obtained enlightenment. The statue was truly awe inspiring and is … Continue reading →

Today in class two media groups screened their unit projects. Both of them were documentaries. My group, Dan, Caitlin, Brin and I, made a documentary for Ecology class. To learn about ecology, our class spent a week in Zahirabad, a … Continue reading →

Drums beating, children chanting, feet marching; the celebration of Human Rights Day started off with a parade through a village near Visthar. Each year different human rights are focused on and this year awareness was raised about the rights of … Continue reading →

The last four months in India have taken all of us in SJPD to a wide variety of locations, introduced us to inspiring people working for social justice, and built a wonderful, supportive community around us. Even after so many … Continue reading →

  I have always believed what I was told. I have never been the girl interested in politics.             I believed that conflicts in Africa, Indo-China, and especially in the Middle East were too complex for me to ever understand. … Continue reading →

Monday evening I met my first naked monk. Yep, you read that right. Naked. I tried to be open minded about the situation, but no matter how hard I tried, it was still a little uncomfortable to sit right in … Continue reading →

Shravanabelagola.  Try saying that five times fast.  Yeah, most of us can’t either.  On our last field visit of the semester, we travelled a few hours away to the town of Shravanabelagola for a crash course on Jainism.  Meaning ‘the … Continue reading →

As we study the structural injustice that is the Bhopal gas tragedy, it is important not to forget that there are hundreds of thousands of people who are still affected by the disaster.  This was made very clear to us … Continue reading →

On Tuesday, we visited the abandoned factory responsible for the 1984 Union Carbide gas explosion. Although we had been learning about the incident for a few days beforehand and had met with survivors the day before, it was extremely sobering … Continue reading →