Visitor from India

Dr. Sridhar Krisnaswami of SRM University in Chennai formerly Madras), India, talking with my blogging students last week, about journalism, media, India, politics and more. He was my host on my recent visit there. He's a former foreign correspondent for the Daily Hindu newspaper, in both Washington DC., Singapore and other places. Now he's head of the journalism program at SRM, and UCO has exchanged students and faculty in a partnership arranged by Dr. Pam Washington, dean of the college of Liberal Arts, here at UCO. Photo by Dan Smith of photo services.

For more information, see my earlier posts on my India visits.

Gandhi and me--India journal

First views from SRM University, Chennai, India...

A student asked to take this photo, in front of a statue of Gandhi at the gate to SRM University. He said proudly of Gandhi, "the father of our country."

Though largely a resident campus (students live in "hostels," not "dorms"), big yellow buses also transport students from the city, 30 km away, to campus. Every college--engineering, etc--has individual buses.Those are bricks in the foreground. There is construction everywhere in India.

This is the college of bio-engineering. Lots of new buildings in the 25 year old private university.

I took this photo to show all the varied dress on the campus.

Street signs on campus...you're not in Kansas anymore.

Motorcycles are a main mode of transportation in India and on campus. We could learn from this...park in a no parking area and they deflate your tires!

One more view of Gandhi...

We have much to learn from this country and civilizations. More photos and comments and videos to come.