http://jashamilton.com Create, Appropriate, Innovate, Alleviate Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:35:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en finally, i'm back in the states, sorting through bollywood stacks on my turntable. i also couldn't help but spend just a little time on i-tunes to check in with some reliable peoples. two albums are in my phones on repeat right now. both are instrumental, heavy and ... http://jashamilton.com/?p=274 just read an excellent post by a friend of mine, sarada.  she highlights an important issue from the NY Times magazine cover story on aids: gender and power politics in the aids pandemic.  studies have shown that young, married, monogamous women have higher rates of aids infection than sexually active ... http://jashamilton.com/?p=270 my summer internship ended this past friday, august 11.  two days before its conclusion, our team had a meeting with the maharashtra state secretary of education, all of his department directors, two private sector banks, and a mutlilateral.  our job was to present a plan for addressing the growing need ... http://jashamilton.com/?p=269 these are pictures from a billboard i pass everyday walking home.  the company, Amul, sells butter and always finds a way to work current events into its ads.  love it. http://jashamilton.com/?p=266 there are benefits to being white in mumbai.  easy, unquestioning access to high-end social establishments.  instant (and sometimes constant) attention from wait staff and street kids alike.  regular opportunities to be an extra in a blockbuster bollywood film.  if this last example stokes your interest, here's an excerpt from an ... http://jashamilton.com/?p=255 two weeks ago, dennis (a.k.a. bollywood haraszko) and i took an ambitious weekend jaunt up to amritsar in punjab.  this town is home to the most sacred of sikh holy sites, the golden temple (harmandir).  muslims strive to make the pilgrimage to mecca at least once in their lives.  in ... http://jashamilton.com/?p=252 “we are going to work in spite of floods, riots and blasts.  to sit at home and tremble is not the mumbai way.  if you have to die, it is better to die on your feet than in your bed.”                         -mumbaikar quoted in The Week   but, do mumbaikars have to die?    over the course ... http://jashamilton.com/?p=254 7/11. many people died today just coming home from a long day of work.  i’m not a praying man, but am finding it hard to move beyond paying mental and emotional respects to the recently deceased.  i was just thinking that if i had been in one of those exploding ... http://jashamilton.com/?p=221   i heard this crazy story about los angeles.  early yesterday morning, two democrats went for a morning jog and discovered that mud had been slung all over their favorite landmark, a statue of eleanor roosevelt.  appalled by the actions of some miscreants, they called bill clinton, al gore, john kerry, ... http://jashamilton.com/?p=212 it’s official, monsoon season is here in full force.  the hindu, muslim, christian, and (insert any other gods that may or may not exist) spirits have been crying their eyes out.  mumbai grows increasingly drunk with each teardrop and, as it does, asks, pleads, even commands that we stay indoors.  ... http://jashamilton.com/?p=199