Saturday night = momo time
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under photography
Oh sweet Jesus
Every Saturday afternoon, the kids gather in the kitchen to crank out momos for dinner. It is a glorious sight, these traditional Tibetan wonders.
The students taught me how to properly fold a momo, to get that crescent shape and the bunched edge. I’m particularly bad at it, and they frequently laughed at the momos I made. More pictures below.
Mmmm....
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Tags: bhuriakop, culture, food, india, kids, momos, photography, school, sikkim, teaching, tibet, volunteering
Tibetan eyes
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Tibetan Refugee Self Help Centre, Darjeeling
We visited the Tibetan Refugee Self Help Centre in the Darjeeling hills. At the time, it was a rather dour compound. Adults eyed us — seven foreigners pulling up in a van — with reserve. We spent most of our time in the gift shop that sells traditional handicrafts at fixed, good prices.
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Tags: children, china, darjeeling, india, photography, play, portrait, poverty, tibet, tibetan refugee self help center
Tibetan kitchen is a family affair
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under photography
Our tour of Darjeeling was snared by a regular road closure that trapped us in a mountain traffic jam. Perfect Indian excuse for a lunch break.
We ventured to a small Tibetan restaurant where we proceeded to devour steamed vegetable momos and aloo parathas and sweet lemon tea. The whole operation was run out of a cramped kitchen (above) where mom and daughters molded momos (also below) and rolled bread.
Outside, the charismatic papa heckled customers (all of us), refused to serve them tea before lunch (me) and hollered ever-growing food orders (ours) through the door. Pops was absolutely delightful, laughed at my Hindi, and enthusiastically explained (still in Hindi) how to make his lemon tea.
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Tags: darjeeling, family, food, india, momo, nostalgia, photography, shenanigans, tibet
Citizen journalism, old-school
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under photography
Words for a people suppressed
The Tibetan Refugee Self Help Centre in Darjeeling proudly displays the old World War II-era hand press that printed the Tibetan Freedom newspaper for 32 years. The newspaper was started on the advice of the Dalai Llama, exiled to India, to spread word of Tibetans, their identity and their struggle against Chinese control.
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Tags: china, dalai lama, darjeeling, india, journalism, photography, press, printing, tibet, tibetan refugee self help center
These are times of tall men and short character
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under notes
On a wall at the Tibetan Refugee Self Help Center in Darjeeling
Click the photo for a larger image. I’ve retyped below (with reasonable punctuation) for better reading.
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Tags: dalai lama, darjeeling, emerging nations, india, philosophy, refugee, tibet
