Pictures

Pics from around India and Thailand

Where laundry gets done in Mumbai

A clay pot kiln in Dharavi slum, Mumbai

Dharavi slum in Mumbai

Elephanta Cave, on an island off Mumbai

Vegetable market in Bangalore

Global group pic at Soukya Healing Center

Global group pic with Karnatak Classical Dancers at the ECC

Silkworms being fed mulberry leaves at a rural farm near Bangalore

Cauliflower ready for market

Silk cocoons being unravelled into thread

Weaving silk into fabric for saris

Global group pic at a rural Mar-Thoma Church

Julia bedecked in her sari for Diwali

All the beautiful Global women ready for a celebration

Diwali, A Festival of Lights, at the ECC

Sparklers!

The Hodel family decked out at the ECC

Artist Jyoti Sahi at his art ashram outside Bangalore

How many people can you fit on a moped?

Beautiful lotus blossoms

A typical entry decoration in a temple: large brass bowl filled with water and flowers

The Art of Living ashram (or some might call it the "art of selling")

Julia and the monkey

Holy man on a holy mountain in Tiruvannamalai

Monkeys at the ashram

Marty, the Hindu high priest, and Rev. Dr. Cherian Thomas at the temple

Our Global group at the same temple in Tiruvannamalai

Sweeping up the flowers in the yard at ECC

A friend from the bus in the lane next to ours during a traffic jam

Beautiful friends at the ECC

Diwali!!

Jain statue in Shravanabologula

Bird of paradise

Shana with the head of housekeeping at the ECC, Susheela

Shana with children's books that we donated to the ECC library, with Marjorie and library assistant

Marty and Shana with the director of ECC and his wife at our farewell

Shana, Christoph, and Julia at the Taj Mahal

Global Semester 2013 at the Taj Mahal

Shana with her anniversary gift (for the next couple of years) in Agra at the marble inlay workshop

The doorman at our lunch stop in Agra

Beautiful flowers at the Agra fort

Contemplative monkeys

The memorial to Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi

 The Global group (with Sara's parents) at the Grand Palace in Bangkok

Reclining Buddha in Bangkok

Monks chanting at the temple of the Reclining Buddha (below, fruit stand in Bangkok)