Archive for the 'Interns' Category

Bagar Live!

For the past month, I have been working on creating a website for Bagar, a way to bring the identity of this lively town to the worldwide web. I have spent my days walking around the village, taking pictures and also talking to as many people as possible about the culture and history of this […]

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An experiment in trust

Despite one month of living and working in a new place and interacting in a language and culture I had only a passing familiarity with, I have not yet taken the time to write about my experience. Friends have encouraged me to write both about my time in Bagar and about specific successes and disappointments. […]

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Good luck Football Campers!

As part of it’s community leadership effort, GDL interns Akshay Singh and Anurag Dutta started a football training camp for the Bagar Youth this summer. The goal was to impart football skills, and also to impart equally valuable teamwork and leadership skills. The ultimate goal is to excite youth about coming together through sport, and […]

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A take on Leaders

A few of my friends [and fellow Interns :)] are running a Summer Camp for 11th and 12th graders at Bagar [soon, I would not need to hyperlink Bagar to the Wiki article, @ Steph :D]. In much of urban India, summer camps are a fad. There are camps for all sort of activities, […]

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Meet the Interns

As Preeti posted a few days back, GDL is currently hosting a lot of interns from UPenn, BITS Pilani (Pilani and Goa campuses), Tufts etc.. The flurry of activities is thrilling and interesting. Before I start updating you about the projects we , the interns are working on, let me post what a few […]

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