Riding a ferris wheel in Bardoli, City of Love
As the interns settle into life in Bardoli, India, Giannina writes about what she’s getting to used to as everyday life. On instagram, the location tag for Bardoli reads “Bardoli, City of Love” or “Bardoli, Paris of India.” As I’m rounding my third week here, I think I’m starting to grasp why Bardoli has been given... Read More
One Intern’s Thoughts on Her First Glimpses of India
One of Nanubhai’s 2016 interns, Emma, writes about her thoughts on her first few days in India. My first impression of India and our office in Bardoli is that it is nothing like what I had imagined. In my head, Bardoli was a small town with a few shops and not a high population. In... Read More
From Boston to Bardoli… and the bumps in between
NEF’s 2016 social media intern Giannina G.B. writes about her first impressions of India. 20 May, 2016 Exactly a week ago, I was wiping sweat off my brow as I struggled to move out of my freshman dorm at the University of Vermont. I remember thinking wow, I haven’t sweat from just daytime heat... Read More
Evan Talks Technology: Indian Internet
Evan shares with us some of the technology-related setbacks that worked themselves into a very regularly occurring routine during her internship in India last summer. Being in India, sometimes feels like being in a strange twilight zone where time doesn’t function quite as those in the West are accustomed to. Part of this problem is... Read More
Final Reflections: Sonia
Read Sonia’s final blogpost about her experience interning for Nanubhai in India this past summer. After seven weeks of waking up to water buffaloes stomping down on the dusty backroad and chasing the Gujarat Road Transport Bus, I am finally back home to normalcy. And this normalcy feels vague. Almost unreal. When I geared up... Read More