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Interspersed between other acts, cast members came out in front of the curtain to read poems in many of the languages spoken in South Asia, including Tamil, Punjabi, Urdu, Telegu, Bengali, Sanskrit, Gujarati, Malayalam, Sinhalese and English...
...Interspersed between other acts, cast members came out in front of the curtain to read poems in many of the languages spoken in South Asia, including Tamil, Punjabi, Urdu, Telegu, Bengali, Sanskrit, Gujarati, Malayalam, Sinhalese and English...
...currently studying Bengali to help with her work with Phulki. "All of the teachers and kids speak mainly Bengali. I'd like to talk to them to see how they think we can improve the program," she says...
While Bagchi speaks Bengali and has been to India several times, "it will still be a new experience," she says. "There are specific communities that are more susceptible to human rights abuses--for instance, the poor and religious minorities. Their experience of Indian culture is certainly different [from the mainstream...
After a brief period in Rathfarnham, where she learned English at the order's abbey, Sister Teresa sailed for India. She spent the next 17 years as a teacher and then principal of a Calcutta high school for privileged Bengali girls. It was on Sept. 10, 1946, during a train ride to Darjeeling for a religious retreat, that Teresa received a "call within a call" in which she felt God directed her to the slums. "The message was quite clear," she told colleagues. "I was to leave the convent and help the poor whilst living among them...