In the evening, President Reinharz hosts an informal gathering of the Brandeis “family” in Delhi:  alumni, parents of current students, and even some parents of students who have graduated.  It’s a disparate group.  The alumni themselves include graduates of the undergraduate college, as well as Heller and IBS.  Some are Indians who have returned home [...]

En route back to the hotel Harleen makes sure that Jehuda sees Old Delhi, the ancient warren of streets and shops adjacent to the area of the Red Fort and the Jama Masjid, the Grand Mosque.  The pulsing life of the Indian metropolis is most vivid here, with its crowds of people, its bustling enterprise, [...]

Professor Harleen Singh joins us on Wednesday morning, just a few hours after arriving in Delhi with her three-month old baby Meher, who is making her first visit to her mother’s native country. Harleen has slept for less than four hours, but she insists on getting Jehuda and me up before 7:00 a.m. for morning [...]

Note: Follow Vice President for Global Affairs Daniel Terris directly at The Quadrant and on Twitter. There is not much that can be said about the splendors of the Taj Mahal that have not been said before.  Jehuda and I savor its beauty and its mysteries, and we tour the nearby Agra Fort, seat of [...]

Note: Follow Vice President for Global Affairs Daniel Terris directly at The Quadrant and on Twitter. We are invited to dinner Monday night with Mr. Soli Sorabjee, former minister of justice, one of India’s great human rights champions, and grandfather of Aarti Mody ’10.  This year, Brandeis established a lectureship in Soli Sorabjee’s name, as [...]

Note: Follow Vice President for Global Affairs Daniel Terris directly at The Quadrant and on Twitter. Vineeta Rai ’66, came to Brandeis as a Wien Scholar, and remembers with fondness the vibrant international flavor on the Brandeis campus even during that era.  When Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi came to campus in 1965, Vineeta was [...]

We made our way to the suburban neighborhood of Vasant Kunj to visit TERI University. The University is an offshoot of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), a major research center founded by Dr. R.K, Pachauri, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore for their work on climate change. TERI University recently opened [...]

An early stroll from our hotel, in the neighborhood near Connaught Place in central New Delhi.  Traffic is comparatively light, but the streets are full.   We walk along Tolstoy Marg to the Jantar Mantar, a kind of elaborate observatory built in orange-red stone in 1724 by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur.  The centerpiece is [...]

Note: Follow Vice President for Global Affairs Daniel Terris directly at The Quadrant and on Twitter. I am writing en route to Delhi, at the start of a two-week trip to India for Brandeis, accompanying President Jehuda Reinharz, as described in detail in Brandeis Now. Why India? Why India for Brandeis? The Brandeis connections in [...]