India is a picture book for understanding life

   More than 100 days of “experiencing India” have passed. But still – here in India there is so much to discover, every day, again and again. All over the country. Just as if it were the first time I get not tired to observe while travelling, simply watching: people and things that exist and…

A Christian NGO, caring sisters and brothers and a dinner with the bishop

   In Kerala, in the South of India, there live most of Christian Indians. Ca. 20% of the population are Christians, which is very high in comparison with most of all other Indian regions. From there come most of the Christian Sisters and Brothers working all over India – as priests, fathers, social workers, sisters…

Indians, oxen and a deep trust in the world 

B  Indians can sleep everywhere and everytime. If you are on tour with a driver and you will just leave the car for ten minutes and come back, be sure that the driver will be there on the seat with closed eyes having a  catnap. Sometimes they sleep on some racks and shelves in small…

Meeting the Children’s club at the end of the world

The children of Mokhmalla in the Gharwal live in one of the most isolated parts of the world. Due to bad roads, missing vehicles and money they live in the upper parts of a Himalayan mountain. They live at the end of a valley, there where the high Himalaya mountains start growing into heaven.  It…

Sisters, social work and floods in the Gharwal 

The way is long and exhausting, it takes more than 10 hours by car: small, broken roads, often deep abysses , endless bends, warning of landslides and rockfall. We, that’s a Priest and myself, are on the way to an isolated village in the Gharwal region. We will visit a social project with disabled children…

Visiting Sanyasi – Religion but also Social work

   According to Hindu Mythology in everyone’s life there should be four parts of life, called also the four Ashrams: Vidyarthi, Grihastha, Vanprastha, and Sanyasa. Vidyarthi ashram, the first comprises the first 25 years. From 25 to the age of 50 people should get married and have a family. At 50 then the renunciation phase starts…

An “open air”  Fitness workout Center in Varanasi

On the way back from Bihar I stop at Varanasi, one of the oldest cities of the world and additionally one of the very holy places in India. There is a lot to see and do there, ca. 3500 temples, ashrams, a huge university – and of course all the ghats and ceremonies. It is…