Giving Hands Inside a Loving Heart
What’s in your heart? Sundarban Orphanage in West Bengal was our third Hearts of the World workshop of the India Tour. My favorite response was from the founder of the workshop himself, Jalaluddin Gazi, a taxi driver who grew up in poverty. At age 7, to his despair, he was pulled from school due to lack of […]
I’m so excited to share this video about our first workshop on the Hearts of the World India Tour. We went to Bal Ashram in Varanasi, the oldest living city on earth to ask kids, “What’s in your heart?” For more videos and updates from the road visit our Facebook page Huzzah! (Source: https://www.facebook.com/)
Mr. Lotus Twenty-Nine
Meet Pankaj Bishnoi! He’s our driver, translator, videographer, Hindi teacher and new friend. Pankaj will be with us for our entire 105-day journey through India. Hailing from Haryana, India, his name means “Lotus Twenty-nine,” he can eat eight chapatis in a sitting and he likes Punjabi dancing and wild deer. He dislikes traffic cops, parking […]
Jhilimili, Jangal Mahal, India
“No foreigner has even been there,” said Gangaram, the president of Jhilimili who will be our guide. Another guy who frequented this region. told us, “The tribal people in Jhilimili eat burnt rats on a stick.” “I’ve seen the elephant gangs crush cars and homes and just last week they killed a man.” “Make sure […]
The Hearts of Kolkata
“Namaskar!” Says thirty little voices in unison, greeting me to their classroom. The meaning of Namaskar is ‘I greet the god in you.’ “Namaskar!” I shout back. We are conducting our third Hearts of the World workshop at Kasba Girls Home in Kolkata. We work in one room and with so many kids it’s a […]
The powerful fuel of passion
A shirtless man with a joyful face dressed in a lungi hands me a coconut he’s just chopped from his yard with his machete. His wife sits in the room, smiling at us with shy, curious glances. We are in a small village just outside of Kolkata visiting the father of the man with the […]
A Sensory Synopsis of Varanasi
Varanasi is magnificent. I wanted to experience “the holy city” in its state of waking up and so, being more of a night owl than a morning person, I stayed awake all night so that I could witness the happenings on the Ganges at sunrise. At 5:30 am I was delightfully surprised by the echoing […]
The Riddled Road to Varanasi Pt 1
Orien, Pankaj (our driver) and I said goodbye to our new friends at our favorite juice bar in Delhi and left for Varanasi in the early evening after gathering supplies for our three month Hearts of the World Tour through India. We drank a mixture of pineapple, ginger, sugar cane, mint juice here every morning […]
The Riddled Road to Varanasi, Pt 2
(…Continued) Fifteen long hours after leaving Delhi, between the dust clouds and Tata trucks she finally appeared… the oldest active city in the world, Varanasi. I sat up in the back, blinking my heavy, thirsty eyes at the sight of the holy city. There were cows everywhere. Painted and decorated Tata goods carriers lined the […]
Impromptu Workshop at Hauz Khas Village
Today we went to Hauz Khas Village to meet with the gallery who will be hosting the Hearts of the World India show on June 20th, after we return from the trip. It’s the perfect spot, inside a geodesic done. The doors are large enough that we can drive our touring vehicle inside for use […]