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'The Real' Punjab
We had a driver take us about an hour from Ludhiana to Phagwara (pronounced Fug-wha-rah) to Mandip's Aunt’s house, where her Mom and brother had arrived the night before. Phagwara is a city but it is much less developed than Ludhiana and has a lot more smaller villages surrounding it. About an hour after we got there a family friend of ours, who is 72 years old, came to visit us with his wife. They are from Mandip’s ...
Ahem...It's Coming Out the Other End
... the lack of support from anybody, and position I was put in.
I told everybody that I was going back to Canada a week before I had to leave. Everybody was pretty shocked since it was without warning. Mani and Ranjit's family were devastated, and I was truly sad to leave them. They had been so amazing to me, and a source of happiness and love. Jinder on the other hand was likely positively elated. She invited me over for a going ...
Hitch hiking on a school bus, just another day.
After a much shorter bus ride back to Hoshiarpur, I arrived in the pandemonium that is the Hoshiarpur bus terminal. After asking several random men, I finally found one who knew where Naryala was, and which bus was going there. Unfortunately for me, the bus didn't actually go into Naryala, only on the highway. It let me off on the side of the highway, which was a 2km walk into the village. Luckily I knew the way as I had biked it many times before on my way to Sotla. So ...
You Want Me to Do What?!
... in this case Harjit and Harjinder, to set up a language school. The language school would teach English and operate as a business. The profits would fund EduCARE's social programs, and the social entrepreneurs would get a cut as well. However, the idea wasn't that the social entrepreneurs would get rich off of this, they would merely get a modest amount of compensation. Mr. B saw the whole thing as a social enterprise, where the social entrepreneurs provided the capital, and ...



