Tag Archives: india

Worth

A boy didn’t finish his meal. I told him that no one was going to want his leftovers. He shrugged and said, “The poor kids in India want to eat it.” I told him, “I doubt that. Who would want to eat someone else’s scraps, if they could choose not to? Just because they will, […]

Salt

On our Buddhist pilgrimage this year, we spent hours on the tour bus driving from one rural location to another. At a rest stop near the India-Nepal border, my friend emerged with three ziploc bags full of ripe Indian gooseberries. I asked her what she was going to do with all of those gooseberries. She […]

Line

At an Indian airport, our tour group of nearly 50 people had to stand in a long security check line with other passengers. The security officer checked our travel documents and sent each passenger through in intervals. People began to notice an Indian woman moving her way forward from the back of the line. She […]