Tag: india

As I prepared for my trip, many questioned why? Why India? They always said it like it was a bad thing.

Sarada Rajeeva described the horrors of the illegal trading of people before about 50 University of La Verne community members who filled the West Dining Room Tuesday.

The University of La Verne Department of Music hosted a concert featuring the Carnatic Music Music Ensemble, composed of artists Geetha Ramanathan Bennett, an accomplished veena and vocal artist and Mahesh Chidambara, a talented mridangam and ghatam player, on Oct. 6 in Founders Auditorium.

The University of La Verne offers its students a wide variety of study abroad programs, on six different continents and for periods from a few weeks to a full year. Some of the most popular options include programs in England, France and Japan, or more “exotic” program locations like Jordan, Ghana and India.

This year’s interfaith Thanksgiving chapel service held Nov. 17 gave Associate Pofessor of Religion and Philosophy Richard Rose and Learning Enhancement Services Coordinator Steve Kinzie an opportunity to share their experiences in the fourth annual interfaith conference in Amritsar, India, held Nov. 1 to 7.

Looking me in the eye, the boy extends his withered arm toward me. Between a patchwork of scabs and abscesses running from shoulder to wrist, bubbles and boils of necrotic flesh look ready to fall away. Leprosy. An affliction so distant as to seem mythical, but in the horizon spanning slums of Delhi and throughout India, a frequent sight.