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Teaching in India

Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,632]

About teaching, and teachers, in India.

Destinations: India | Mumbai
Topics: People | Working Abroad

Leaving India

Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,632]

As I prepared to leave India for the first time, one of my colleagues said, "You will miss India." I told her that I had to leave: I had been having disturbing and suggestive dreams in which I was...

Destinations: India | Mumbai
Topics: People | Working Abroad

Belonging in India

Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,632]

Before my six-month sojourn in India, I paid a visit to an Indian friend of mine in America, who had visited India for about the same amount of time. "Were you glad to be back in America?" I asked.

Destinations: India | Mumbai
Topics: People | Working Abroad
Lining the holy river are buildings like these, the bottoms of their long stairs reaching well below the surface. People come here to wash, frolic, or sit in quiet contemplation.

Varanasi: "God Is Here"

Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,632]

Travelling in India cannot be called a vacation. It is closer to a species of trauma, or a potent drug, best taken in small doses to build one's tolerance for it. You go to India, as one Indian writer...

Destinations: India | Mumbai
Topics: Culture | Travel | People | Literature | Festivals | Working Abroad | Religion

Working in a Bombay School

Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,632]

Short of dishwashing, no job of mine was as fruitless as teaching in a Bombay school. The chaos of Bombay was problematic enough. But like K. of Kafka's Castle I was offering my vague abilities to an...

Destinations: India | Mumbai
Topics: Working Abroad
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