India and my fifteen minutes of fame

I haven’t blogged lately as we have been consumed with a different kind of craziness. A film crew descended on Indore to document our work for the IBM CSC.

This required another visit to the Rahul Ghandi nagar community where we met again with the woman I call the water goddess. So, while we were sweating bullets in the blazing hot sun the crew was filming us. I can’t wait to see the footage. If this doesn’t send me to the fat farm I don’t know what will. We were popular the first time and now that we returned with a film crew, the kids, the adults and even the cows think we are celebrities. We were swarmed and I had a great time.

It was very sad leaving the slum knowing that I will never see these sweet people again. I was moved to tears.

Then, today we had a press conference with several publications. The topic was the IBM CSC. The team of twelve were there along with two of the NGO’s, from Urban Health Resources and Concept Society, both organizations are working on different aspects of woman empowerment. While there I was interviewed by the Hindustan Times. Picture and all will make the Sunday paper. Oh boy; looks like I had to come all the way to India for my fifteen minutes of fame. Good night and Namaste.

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