by holly | Jan 24, 2018 | India
While in India, we had a unique opportunity to tour a sugar mill that was established over 85 years ago in 1932. The sugar mill is one of the largest of the 30 in the area, intaking 13,500 tons of sugarcane a day from roughly 40,000 farmers up to 50 km away. Fifty...
by jetalley | Jan 24, 2018 | Faculty-Led, India
Sheroes Hangout is a café run by acid attack survivors and spearheaded by the Stop Acid Attacks campaign. The café serves food and drinks all day, hosts various events and parties, and has a wall of fully stocked bookshelves for visitors to read. Everyone ordered warm...
by jetalley | Jan 24, 2018 | Faculty-Led, India
https://ipo.uark.edu/files/2018/01/IMG_8173Trim-21p6ybm.mp4 On the morning of January 7th, we began the day with a short drive to Pushkar to visit a rose processing factory. Upon arrival we were greeted with a drumbeat welcome and a shower of flower petals like we’d...
by holly | Jan 24, 2018 | India, Uncategorized
The day started early in New Delhi as we prepared for our bus ride to Ajmer. The whole trip took roughly five hours. When we arrived in Ajmer, we met our hosts next to a gate off the side of the road and they led us through the tiny, curvy dirt roads of Nadi Village....
by jetalley | Jan 17, 2018 | Faculty-Led, India
January 5 was our second full day in India and it began with a bus ride to the south campus of New Delhi University. The morning was foggy and along the route we encountered the typical sight of crazy traffic and lane-bobbing auto-rickshaws and meandering cows and...
by mvtipton | Jan 17, 2018 | India, Uncategorized
The sugar mill! At the sugar mill, we learned the process of turning sugar anew to crystal sugar. The factory was large, with over forty thousand people supply sugar cane within a fifty kilometer radius. The factory was about five stories tall, and about a mile’s...
