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Although the Indian government-- which has governed Sikkim for the past five years--is usually reluctant to allow foreigners into the small country, Smith says the Indians desire for Western-style education will help him obtain a visa. "It's much better than just going there and knocking on some monastery door...
...stint as a schoolmaster in Sikkim will not be the first unusual adventure for Smith, who prides himself on experiencing a variety of activities...
...year's Lowell House opera, "The Elixir of Love," has played the piano since he was four, has rung the Lowell House bells for the past three years, has worked summers as a park ranger in the West and plans to go to divinity school when he returns from Sikkim...
...cailing has persisted. Next year, Smith will use a Rockefeller fellowship to travel to Sikkim, a tiny nation north of India, where he will teach science and mathematics to local schoolchildren. "It's a small school, akin to our little red school house," Smith says. He will live isolated in the rural countryside, without heat or hot water...
...most inhabited regions on earth, with a combined population now 100 times that of Nepal's scanty 12 million. The Nepalese people are only too conscious of the political tightwire act that has preserved their sovereignty all this time: they need only point to India's annexation of Sikkim in 1975 and the recent Soviet takeover of Afghanistan to show what has happened to their neighbors who have lost their balance...