19 October 2007 / 25 Mizan 1386 Two weeks ago I took a field trip to a UNHCR resettlement site north of Kabul. We traveled in a bullet-proof white SUV, with doors that must weigh 200 pounds and windows that do not open. I thought it was a little surreal that a refugee agency is […]
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14 October 2007 / 22 Mizan 1386 And now for something completely different: the Lotus Temple. The mood for me was set by this couple: I think they may be in their eighties. They held hands as they walked towards the temple. Powerful testament to love and long relationships. They did not move very fast;
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13 October 2007 / 21 Mizan 1386 As with photos in Europe in July, this page is for urban planning students, showing some features of two neighborhoods in New Delhi. This is the edge of the Nizamuddin disrict, which is actually several neighborhoods. Here the houses back up against the Delhi Drain. I thought that
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12 October 2007 / 20 Mizan 1386 Chandi Chowk is now the name of the road that leads due west from the Red Fort (Lal Qila) through the the core of Old Delhi. I know “chowk” from Dari as ‘crowded central commercial area,’ so I apply the term more generally to the whole commercial area
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In October 2007, a USAID-funded educational-development program flew five of us to India to try to recruit planning professors to teach in Kabul. This was my first time in India. Coming from Kabul, New Delhi is quiet, uncrowded, orderly, and unpolluted. I have since learned that much of the ‘uncrowding’ is due to the violent
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