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| August 12th, 2011
I am now back home in Santa Barbara, California. Expecting I would miss Bollywood culture I bought a copy of FilmFare Magazine at the Mumbai airport, hoping it would carry a little bit of Bollywood back home with me. Nonetheless I had finished... -
| August 12th, 2011
While watching television last week an ad comes on for Cadbury “Celebrations” Chocolate. The ad depicts an engagement party for a young couple. The young bride and groom to be are exchanging presents in front of their family members. All is fine... -
| August 8th, 2011
For the internship program I have been doing in Mumbai, an overview of the "Bollywood" film industry, I am required to do a final project either in the form of a short film, photo essay or script. I chose to create a short film. When I have directed... -
| July 31st, 2011
Mumbai sticks to you. It's humidity, dirt and color cling to you unyieldingly. So too do its noises. Here is a Bombay Ballad: the noises of the black and yellow autorickshaws that flood the suburbs like a swarm of wasps, and the sound of the monsoon... -
| July 25th, 2011
Last week I found myself in the ladies compartment of the commuter rail from the outskirts of the city to the northern suburbs. Like cargo trains carrying colorful mixed fruits, this section transported women in technicolor saris back to the city.... -
| July 18th, 2011
I have always felt that looking out the window of a train or car is like watching a movie; you remain stationary watching life sweep across the imaginary screen mounted in the frame of a window. This past weekend I got away from the hub-bub of... -
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July 14th, 2011
As I was about to leave the guesthouse where I am staying, in the suburbs of Mumbai, to get an auto-rickshaw to Bhandra (and since this is a Brown University blog I’ll add that I was going to meet up with about eight young Brown alumni working and...
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July 11th, 2011
I have arrived in Mumbai and am overwhelmed in everyway possible. No way around culture shock I am afraid. I will include more detail of what I am up to and my impressions when I am not so jetlagged. But for now just a few tidbits: I took my first...
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July 11th, 2011
This was written two days ago when I was in the Dubai airport and did not have internet. Thus, I post it now: I am now under the impression that you do not know globalization until you have spent an hour or two in the Dubai International...
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July 8th, 2011
My entire life I have surrounded myself with Hollywood film culture. I grew up in a house where People Magazine was given just as prominent a place on the coffee table as Newsweek and Time and enjoyment of "low" culture was highly encouraged...
Sarah Friedland
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Sarah Friedland is a sophomore at Brown hailing from sunny Santa Barbara, California. Raised on Hollywood films, she is traveling to Mumbai for a month to look at the Hindi language, or "Bollywood," film industry.
