May 16, 2012

Footprints and Stories

The following photos were taken by Nusrath Yusuf ’13 and her fellow internship colleagues. Nusrath is a Brandeis-India Initiative Fellow who worked in Delhi and traveled to other areas with an internship with Operation ASHA. The organization aims to eradicate tuberculosis from third world countries and works in impoverished regions to provide cost-effective tuberculosis treatment.

Read Nusrath’s blog: Footprints and Stories

Young girl getting mehndi put on her hands at Lajpat Nagar Market, New Delhi

Victoria Memorial, Kolkatta - Originally built by the British while in India

Children and a cow in a slum near Tehkhand, South Delhi

Prayers dropped in a simple wooden box on Mother Teresa's tomb - AJC Bose Road, Kolkatta

The Golden Temple in Amritsar - a place that gets more visitors than the Taj Mahal every day

A man praying inside the Golden Temple, away from the crowds and tourists - Amritsar

All on the auto-rickshaw agreed, these were the happiest beggars they had seen in Delhi

People crowding around the main water supply pipeline to collect clean drinkable water on a 90 F day - Harkesh Nagar slums, South Delhi

6 months and about 100 empty strips later, the patient no longer has tuberculosis - Hazira, Gwalior

Children living in a 250-year old abandoned temple in Jaipur

"A simple picture, just because" - Wagah Border, Punjab

About Ariana

Ariana is an International and Global Studies and Anthropology major, and plans on graduating in 2013. She has worked for the Office of Global Affairs since 2009.

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