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Life on the slow track - 'Chaha' at an Amruttulya
'Chaha' at an Amruttulya
Tulshi baug, in Pune has been a Waada (neighbourhood) with a recorded history and inhabited since the 1700's if not earlier. In the earlier centuries it was far from the overcrowded, chaotic, busy market place that it is today.
Naro Appaji Khire Tulshibaugwale (1700-1775), the Subedar of Pune during the Peshwa rule built an ornately sculpted Ram temple in his sprawling estate which was completed in 1795, in this neighbourhood which would later be known as Tulshibaug. Over the next 200 years civilization would thrive nurturing trade, arts and culture in what would later be ascribed as the Puneri culture, from the times of the Peshwas.
In those times the neighbouring metropolis of Mumbai was still an amalgamation of islands reclaimed from the sea and its dockyard was yet to become the thriving trade center that it would become in the following century. It would take a couple of days via horse drawn carts to traverse the hills and forests of the western Ghats past the forts to reach the islands of Mumbai.
It was Pune and not Mumbai that was the power center from where the Peshwas and the Maratha's ruled. The British loved its 'almost European' weather which was a great relief from the humidity of the sea shores of Mumbai's islands. They set their base in the cantonment area in Pune. Up until the 1980's one could spot raspberry trees perhaps brought in from England and planted and nurtured by the memsahibs who lived in and around what is the 509 - Airforce area in today's Pune.
In the early 1900s, Pune was a Marathi heartland with a minority population of Iranis, Parsis and Gujaratis who migrated to set up small businesses in the city. By the middle of the century, after India's independence it became the hub of automobile manufacturing industries. The TELCO now known as Tata Motors set up its automobile manufacturing plant and gave rise to many other ancillary auto industries. It was not until the late nineties and early 2000's that the information technology industry discovered the potential in Pune and set up shops housing the back-office operations and software development of companies based out of the west.
Until then Marathi was the predominantly spoken language in Pune. Hindi, arguably the national language of India was still a foreign language to many Punekars.
Despite the influx of migrants into the newer areas of Pune, there are some neighbourhoods that still retain the Maharashtrian and old Pune charm. The Peth's and Wada's of Pune are a reminder of a good times when this place thrived and which held its own identity and nurtured its own culture. They had their own distinct style in architecture, music, dance, theatre, performing arts and that mouth watering, subtly flavored distinct Maharashtrian cuisine.
For atleast the last three generations if not more, Tulshi baug, in old Pune has been a paradise for female shoppers of all ages and times. Unlike now when you will need to park your car somewhere far away in available parking spaces and take an autorickshaw that will take you to the periphery of Tulshibaug, you could walk it up to visit the famous Dagdu Sheth Ganpati temple and then meander into the by-lanes of Tulshibaug to shop for your trinkets, kitchen accessories, wool to knit the next sweater for the nippy Pune winters or to weave a delicate crochet that transformed into ornate table cloths and wall hangings, much of which unleashed the creativity of the housewives of a generation gone by.
In Tulshibaug nothing much has changed in all these years. As you alight the autorickshaw at any of the approach roads to Tulshibaug and enter the narrow alleyways you will be bombarded into the same small shops that sell everything from trinkets, beads, woolen material, knitting needles, traditional woven sarees to modern dress materials. The trends and fashion keep changing and coming back. But the bric a brac in Tulshi baug caters to all the variety and times and therefore remains evergreen.
It is a bargaining haven and you will be pleased to have struck a deal for something that could cost you a bomb elsewhere in an upmarket boutique. Only to discover the next shop offering you a bigger discount on the same earring or dress material that you bargained and bought a while ago. On the road side hawkers set up their shops of freshly harvested vegetables from the nearby villages. Although the villages have now moved far away, with all that advent of steel and glass structures that house the offices of information technology development centers and back office shops of the world. They were the erstwhile villages and farm lands that grew vegetables and reared the cattle and poultry to cater to Pune city's population.
It is early afternoon and somewhere amidst the chaos and the crowds, rings the bells of Tulshi baug Ganpati. Shoppers and hawkers suspend their activity and congregate towards the Tulshi baug Ganpati. Situated right in the middle of the crowded shopping area is the Tulshi Baug Ganpati, one among the finest gems in Pune's historical treasures. Tulshi Baug Ganpati has been in existence long before Lokmanya Gangadhar Tilak, made the festival of Ganpati a public festival, to rally people to fight for social causes. Established by the local traders in 1901, it is a display of faith within diversity among the Maharashtrian, Marwari, Gujarati, Muslim and Parsi traders of Tulshi Baug. The idol is an imposing 15 feet in height, made of fiber glass and is on display throughout the year and not just during the eleven-day Ganeshotsav when all important neighbourhoods garner resources and manpower to erect their own pandal and install an idol that is a show of wealth, prosperity and solidarity of the neighbourhood.
In Tulshi Baug every year a new idol is sculpted by the renowned sculptor D S Khataokar.
Khataokar has been responsible for sculpting as well as decorating the Tulshi Baug Ganesh idol for more than a couple of decades now.
Pious devotees and passersby take turns to hold the brass lamp and circumambulate the lamp for a few minutes as a part of the 'Arati ritual' before handing over to the next person. It is a ten-minute ritual in which Traders, hawkers and the passersby alike, stop-by and participate.
An ostentatious display of about 80 kilograms of silver along with fruit and flower garlands that are refreshed every day, the Tulshibaug Ganpati stands in a small 20 feet by 20 feet space in a crowded and busy marketplace as a pillar of prosperity for its inhabitants and visitors alike.
Around the corner is the famous Ganpati temple built by Dagdu Sheth Halwai, a local trader that has celebrated its 125th year of establishment. About 40 kilograms of gold ornaments adorn two idols of elephant god and are insured for 10 million (one crore) rupees.
Despite being situated in a maze which you can only reach through narrow alleyways, its construction is so minimalistic that you can view the idol from the main road as you pass by the temple on Laxmi road, the main thoroughfare surrounding the Dagdu Sheth Ganpati Mandir.
Legend has it that Dagdu Sheth Gadve a trader who migrated to Pune in the 1800's had set up a sweets shop (and hence the surname Halwai) in this place. Bad times fell upon him and he lost his son to a plague epidemic and went into deep depression. This in turn led to a downfall in his business. His spiritual mentor advised him to build a temple for Lord Ganesh to overcome the bad times.
Apparently after he built the temple, his fortunes turned and the entire place attracted wealth and prosperity for him as well as the other traders around the area. It was here that the idea of celebrating public Ganesh festival struck Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak. It proved to be an epoch-making event in Indian history as Ganeshotsav's in the early 1900's slowly rallied support against the British and culminated in the freedom movement leading to India's independence from the British rule.
Dagdu Sheth Ganpati Mandir trust is the richest trust in the state of Maharashtra and is known for the many celebrities who flock the temple during the annual eleven-day Ganeshotsav.
The vibes of the Pune of yester years is strong and vibrant around these places, and is a stark contrast to the sprawling concrete jungle of its more cosmopolitan suburbs. A visit to Pune's Peth areas is not complete without visiting an 'Amruttulya' outlet. Translated in English it could mean 'Comparable to Nectar', it is a great hit among those who have that cultivated taste for 'Chaha' the Puneri way.
At an Amruttulya outlet tea is not brewed but boiled. Buffalo's milk, water, sugar, crushed ginger and cardamom along with tea leaves are boiled and continuously stirred in a brass vessel. The older the brass vessel, the more distinct is the flavor of the tea boiled from it.
Often situated as a corner shop in busy intersections of crowded marketplaces, an Amruttulya outlet is a small hole in the wall with a corner that serves as the kitchen. A shining brass kettle perched up a kerosene stove always has some tea boiling in it with crushed ginger, cardamom, tea leaves, milk and sugar. It is poured out in a cup and a bashi (saucer) and served to the customer. A true Puneri way of having your tea is to pour out hot tea from the cup, into the saucer, watch it cool and noisily sip it from the saucer. Noisier the better.
When at an Amruttulya outlet in Pune, do not judge someone's etiquette by how their sip their 'Chaha'. For the 'Chaha' is best sipped from the Bashi and not from cup.
A middle-aged man dressed in an impeccable white kurta, pyjama and a white cotton Gandhi cap, after some routine haggling buys a bunch of lemon grass and ginger wrapped in a newspaper for ten rupees from the old woman clad in a nine yards saree who has set up her wares by to road side
outside the Amruttulya outlet. Like in most Maharashtrian households, his day would begin with a Gavati Chaha - strong tea, boiled and strongly flavoured with cuttings of lemon grass and crushed ginger along with a bowlful of Kanda poha seasoned with freshly grated coconut and finely chopped coriander leaves while reading the 'Sakal' newspaper. Somewhere in the background Pune's own Bhimsen Joshi would croon away a Vithal Bhajan that would set the atmosphere just right to begin yet another day in one of the few waadas left in old Pune.
References :
/thepunekar.com/2018/03/punes-magnificent-tulsi-baug-ganpati/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Baug
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagadusheth_Halwai_Ganapati_Temple
- April 26, 2019 No comments: Links to this post
Life on the slow track - BANANA BUNS IN UDUPI
BANANA BUNS IN UDUPI
It is about 1.30 in the afternoon and the town of Kollur is in a siesta. A soothing silence and peace has engulfed this little town. Dark clouds that threaten a downpour anytime pass by peacefully as though they too are on an afternoon siesta. The temple around which the entire economy of this little town in built is closed until evening. The shopkeepers too are on a siesta.
As you walk up to the Kollur bus station and sit inside the only bus that leaves for all places outside of kollur, including Udupi, you realize the driver is also having a siesta on the long front seat. The conductor is the only man on duty and he is out smoking a cigarette. He is happy for the lone passenger to board his bus and quickly goes out to solicit more of them. Unfortunately, he does not find any.
It is a lovely window seat from where you get to view the lush green mountains and feel the slight nip in the moist air of Kollur.
As the bus takes off you take in the hazy experience of watching the landscape. In about three to four hours the landscape drastically changes from the greenery of the mountains to the barrenness of the plains especially when the bus takes the fast route on that freshly built NH44.
The freshly felled trees are an indication of the newly built National highway that pierces through this place would be expanded into an eight-lane highway. On the yet to be expanded national highway are huge billboards advertising gold and diamond jewelry showrooms, newly found educational institutions guaranteeing 100% job placements and infertility clinics with 99.8% success rate of producing children for barren couples.
The traffic gets dense as the long vehicles from the Mangalore port, the trucks, the tourist buses and the plush cars whiz past at dizzying speeds.
Travelling from Kollur by a bus, it is amazing to see the landscape of these coastal towns change rapidly as you move towards the plains.
As you close in to Udupi, the weather gets warm and humid. There is a saline tinge in the air. Your arrival into the town is evident as the traffic gets denser and the central part of Udupi town emerges. It is a noisy and busy bus station, quite a contrast to its quiet and quaint railway station.
The bus conductor calls out for passengers alighting at Udupi to hurry up. As you alight, the noise, the crowd, the chaos, the huge billboards of this not so small town hit you hard.
Udupi Lord Krishna on whom many a composition has been composed and sung by Carnatic musicians is the reigning deity of this town.
Udupi Sri Krishna temple around whom the entire town grew over the years is about ten minutes' drive away from the bus station by an autorickshaw. The streets surrounding the temple are cordoned off for vehicular traffic.
At the center of squarely built streets stands the Udupi Sri Krishna temple with an imposing but petite architecture. Surrounding the temple on the wide pavemented streets are, various institutions run by various 'Mutt's who are headquartered in Udupi, one of the five important Krishna temples in India.
The aesthetically appealing architecture, grandly lit facades and delicately designed wood work make these 'Mutts' stand out and should loud to say that once upon a time these institutions thrived in this temple town. This place is also a prestigious platform for performing artistes to showcase their art.
In the olden days these mutt's would offer shelter and food to devotees who travelled from afar. Before the roads were built and rail roads were laid, undertaking a travel must have been an arduous affair. Travel must have been more for pilgrimage purposes than as a family outing or a youthful adventure.
Depending upon your affiliation in your home town, you checked into a mutt that had its branch in Udupi.
Times have changed. The Mutt's let out these rooms for a small amount. But not before checking your antecedents and affiliations of caste, sub-caste and religion. It is not a commercial affair and no one solicits business here. You get referred by someone who has been there or someone you knew from your home town.
One such mutt is the Uttaradi Mutt. An institution that has perhaps seen better days in the past.
A 'China Bazaar' shop selling cheap plastic items and fake Puma track suits for 200 rupees camouflages the entrance to the Uttaradi mutt. However, as you enter the Mutt, a different aura engulfs you. The front yard is decorated with a Tulsi alcove. (Basil – shrub considered to be Sri Krishna's consort). A woman renunciate, a Krishna devotee is arranging the flowers and the copper vessels at an unhurried pace perhaps getting it ready for the evening pooja ritual to the Tulsi Alcove. Time seems to flow slowly and peacefully inside the Mutt.
Inside the Mutt is a big hall and on the altar is a huge brass sculpture of Sri Krishna, very tastefully decorated. On the first floor from where you can oversee the happening in the hall are the rooms available for rent. In the room you get freshly laundered bedsheets and pillows on the double bed and a spotlessly clean bathroom. No frills like air conditioning, bottled mineral water or room service. It is a place for devotee and pilgrims coming from faraway places to refresh and move on.
As you step out of Uttaradi Mutt, you witness that Opulence is in the air. This is 'Krishna' land. A 'darshan' of the richly decorated idol of Udupi Shri Krishna is relayed to devotees through LED Televisions all around the temple as well as at the entrances on all four sides of the temple. There are rituals performed six times during the day.
At the temple auditorium a young girl with two accompanying artistes, one on the harmonium and another on a tabla is performing a dance drama known as the Hari Katha. The Chairs in the auditorium are all taken and people are sitting and standing across the stone walls of the temple mesmerized by the performance.
Sraddha is probably in her late teens, hails from Kasargode another coastal town not far from Udupi. Her performance is awe-inspiring. She wears absolutely no makeup, sans her bindi. Her hair is nicely oiled and plaited into a single braid. Dressed in a blue long skirt (Lehenga) and red silk blouse, she is standing at the middle of the stage reciting the 'Srinivasa kalyanam'. The marriage of 'Tirupati Venkatesha' to his consort 'Padmavati' . While the format traverses through the various avatars of Sri Vishnu, Rama and Krishna being two among them, the story telling is interspersed with teachings from the Bhagavata Puranam.
Her recital is in Kannada, the local language and the compositions are by Purandaradasa, an eighteenth-century composer believed to be the earliest founder of Carnatic music. The story is that of Vishnu Avatar's and Bhagavata Puranam.
As she bursts into songs, stories and anecdotes while reciting the story her expressions, her tone and her demeanor change. On her right hand in a cymbal that she plays in order to keep the rhythm and add music to her recitals, she is accompanied by two men, much older to her, one on the harmonium and the other on a tabla. As the evening progresses, she intersperses her songs with recitals and adds a modern-day contemporary touch to it. When she bursts into 'Venkata chala Nilayam … vaikunta pura vasam', the composition by Sri Purandaradasa describing, Sri Vishnu's abode in 'Vaikunta', the audience is spell bound and the applause across the auditorium reaches high decibels.
And yet she is an unknown, unsung artiste of an art form that has few takers at the wider level. As the performance draws to a close, the father of the young artiste is introduced. The audience, mesmerized by her performance, put together their hands for a huge applause for nurturing this young talent.
A very shy and introverted Sraddha thanks the audience who have walked upto her for the compliment and moves closer to her father, while busying herself packing her backpack with her belongings as they wrap up the show.
Neither Sraddha, nor her father have plans for her to pursue this art form as a full-time career. At that point in time they are just thankful for the Temple authorities to have given her a chance to perform at the Udupi Sri Krishna temple.
There must be many like Sraddha in small towns like Kasargode and beyond, whose talents will sadly never be recognized by the wider world. But it opens your eyes to the depth of talent and devotion to a less known art form that lies hidden in the hinterlands of India where a rich and ancient culture thrived and promoted story telling as an art form for many centuries over.
Udupi in the contemporary time is known for its iconic brand of restaurants all over India that symbolize the typical 'south Indian' food. They do not exactly operate like a restaurant chain or franchise, but are eateries across all segments run by families who have their roots in the coastal Karnataka region ranging from Mangalore, Gokarna and Udupi.
Their unfailingly standardized recipes that originate from this region have come about to signify your typical South Indian cuisine in the far-flung regions of India. Although the South Indian cuisine is much more than the standard fare of 'Udupi' Masala dosa and Ghee roast dished out with a slightly sweet sambar and coconut chutney.
Much lesser known among the Costal Karnataka delicacies is the Banana bun also known as the Mangalore Bun. It is a bun that is not baked but fried and makes for lovely snack. Slightly sweet in taste, it is made with overripe mashed banana, mixed with dough that has been fermented overnight. The Dough balls are then flattened and fried in oil. This slightly sweet snack is best savoured hot with a splattering of coconut chutney.
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Raise that finger and show it to 'em
It is that time when the citizen is the king. When democracy comes alive and the mighty and powerful come down kneeling to ask to be voted to power.
Thanks to Election commission (and perhaps demonetization) , this year's run-up to the elections is devoid of the massive fanfare that it used to be in the yesteryears.
Absence of those massive cut outs, mid night political rallies, cash and spirits flowing like water in exchange of promised votes gives us some hope that sanity will prevail in this democracy atleast in the future.
Perhaps I am being naïve...
Perhaps there is a lot going on behind the screens or underground.
Perhaps our politicians have evolved and have devised other jugaadu ways to hood wink the election commission…
But the change on the ground is visible.
More than the rallying from the political parties, it is the rally from the election commission and the citizens urging everyone to go and cast their vote, that is worth taking note of.
For if we do not do our bit, we are equally responsible for the mess that our politicians create when voted to power.
While Bangalore's immigrant population has been vociferous about their missing votes, there are celebrities that are urging their fans to go out and cast their vote on twitter and facebook.
Here is one such plea urging citizens to go and vote that was painted on the walls of a government primary school building in a village on the banks of Narmada river near Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh that had me in splits as I clicked ...
Pehle vote daalne jaana...
Baad mey apni Bhains lagaana...
(Literal translation : The first thing on voting day – go cast your vote. You can then take your buffaloes out to graze)
Hilarious as it sounded at first, on second thoughts I thought it had a universal appeal.
We all have our buffaloes that we need to take out to graze . Metaphorically speaking.
It may not be the rural hinterlands on the banks of Narmada, but in the air-conditioned cubicles and cabins of those tall glass buildings that some of us take our buffaloes to graze'.
But vote we must.
And for that it is OK to take time off.
So without much ado… Go out there and vote
Raise that (index) finger and show it to 'em
Life on the slow track - Appam and Stew aboard NH49
The grey overcast sky from the early morning has given way and with the advent of sunshine, the day looks bright and clear. It is humid but not hot at this time of the day.
When on a road trip it is best to go with your instinct and eat at places that you have never heard of before.
Aboard the NH49, is this mid-sized bill board hanging out by the road side which says 'MDM … stew and palappam Rs. 5.'
As you slow down, you see a small shop on the opposite side of the road that is trying hard to cater to a cross section of customers by advertising chinees (sic), north Indian, South Indian snacks.
However, at that time in the morning, the man behind the oven is busy preparing the dough for the Malabar parotta (as different as chalk and cheese in genre, species and characteristics from the north Indian understanding of paratha).
All they have available at that time of the day is Appam and stew unless you are prepared to wait for about twenty minutes, says a woman's voice from the kitchen.
A slightly wobbly yellow plastic table surrounded by blue plastic chairs does not make for a great ambience, but the not so busy NH-49 cutting across the coconut groves and the fresh rays of early morning sunlight piercing through the dense greenery on the opposite side of the road is soothing for the eyes. Besides it is a good place to stretch your legs, breathe some cool fresh air before the day gets humid and have a leisurely breakfast.
The lady lays out a lemony yellow plastic plate and serves a fluffy white appam with bare hands. Along comes a hot bowl of stew and the fragrance of freshly culled out coconut milk spiced up with cloves, cinnamon and cardamom ensures you have made the right stop at the right time. The spotlessly white appam is soft in the middle, which comes from mixing the dough with freshly fermented coconut milk.
There are some dishes that cannot be mass manufactured in the restaurants with heavy foot fall. This is one of them,
Served fresh and hot they taste as authentic as they can and come with what is called the 'homely touch'.
MDM restaurant supplies its palappam and stew to the nearby hotels who stock it up in their buffet breakfast menu. This road side kitchen survives on its bulk orders of Appam and stew from the nearby hotels claiming to serve 'authentic local food'. That was the reason they had Appam and stew available in the early hours, ready to the shipped to the hotels in time for the display in the buffet breakfast menu.
Light on the palate, slightly sweetened in taste by the coconut milk and mildly spiced up, vegetable stew is an authentic local dish of the Malabar coast line.
'Stew' as the name of the recipe was perhaps was an inheritance from the British, who were familiar with the other stewed versions like the apple stew, lamb and lentil stew from Europe.
The localized version is the 'Ishtu' as it is called by the locals. Its ingredients and recipe are certainly as local as it can get. Cloves, cardamom, cashew and seasonal vegetables or mutton pieces slowly stewed (not cooked) in freshly extracted coconut milk. It was probably christened as the Malabar stew by the British almost a century ago. The locals have adapted the nomenclature and pronounce it 'ishtu'.
When you look around and search for the origins of this recipe, you can trace it down among the Srilankans and Tamils settled in the coastal district in Tuticorin and Nagapattinam. In its Srilankan Sinhalese version the stew is known as 'Sodhi'. This dish perhaps originated from Sri lanka which has a similar terrain and flora like the Malabar coast. A vast coast line, abundant coconut trees, spices and locally grown vegetables and livestock evolved and mutated into a recipe that was adapted by the locals and the colonial rulers alike.
In its Malabar version, it is best served with fluffy appam's that are prepared with fermented lentils and rice dough mixed with tender coconut water and coconut milk extract. Best served hot and eaten in a traditional Kerala home or at a non-descript road side eatery along the national highways dotted across the Malabar coast.
- April 12, 2019 1 comment: Links to this post
Life on the slow track - Vada pao at Karjat Station
Aboard the train from Mumbai to Pune as the skyscrapers of the megapolis fade away and a more soothing weather permeates around you, you know you are approaching Karjat station.
The ascent to the hill stations of Lonavala, khandala and Matheran start from here. If it is the monsoons, the misty clouds would definitely float over the Karjat station.
Among long distance train goers, it has been a long-standing tradition to taste the Vada pao at karjat station irrespective of what has been packed into your lunch boxes for the long train journey.
There is a quaint old-world charm about the karjat station especially when you relive those memories as you bite into a soft and spicy Karjat Vada pao.
Vada pao – is India's rather Maharashtra's answer to Americas Burger. However, to the Indian taste buds a burger and a Vada Pao are poles apart. At least the McDonald's burger or the one from Burger king. Attempts have been made to 'McDonaldize' Vada pao by some Neo MBA types with large funding from venture capitalists. Thankfully their attempts have not really taken off.
There is no comparison to a freshly made Vada pao. A ball of boiled potato mixed with boiled peas and spices, is fried with gram flour paste in oil like a fritter and inserted in between a layer of soft bun (pao). Strictly that would be Vada and pao. But the icing on the pao is the dark red garlic chutney and a fried green chilly that is inserted between the Vada and the pao. The quality of the latter solely determines how mouthwatering your snack would be.
Best eaten hot and spicy, during a defeaning downpour, Vada pao evolved from being a staple food for the mill workers of Mumbai in the 1940s and 1950s. It was a wholesome quick snack that you could grab and bite while on the go and satisfy your hunger pangs while on your way home.
Typically, Vada pao outlets are located at railway stations, bus stations and areas where there is a huge footfall of working-class population. Every college also has its reigning Vada pao vendor.
Shiv sena, the local political party of Maharashtra patronized Vada-pao as a working-class snack. Over the years it became the official snack of the Mumbai megapolis. It is the ideal snack for a population that is always on the move. The maximum city that never sleeps.
There is something about having a Vada pao at Karjat station. As you train stops by, you only need to look out and there would be a vendor with the customary 'Diwadkar' embroidered in a red band across his khaki shirt, wearing a white topi, waiting with a tray full of hot Vada and fresh pao with a vessel containing the dry garlic chutney.
For a mere ten rupees he could quickly dispense a Vada inserted in pao, smeared with the red chutney along with the fried green chilly on a newspaper wrapping to suit your taste.
Eco friendly, biodegradable litter and no trappings of the brand placement for the Diwadkars despite the volumes that they sell. Their quality speaks for them.
The stop at Karjat station for most trains is a mere five minutes. And yet you are never short of time, because there are so many of the Diwadkar's mobile stalls right in front of your train window, that materialize as soon as you have decided to buy your Vada pao.
For the Diwadkar Vada pao vendor, time is of essence here, as he needs to cater to as many passengers as possible in those five minutes from across the train window. Apparently massive quantities of Vada pao are sold in those five minutes.
It is all done very efficiently and with minimum fuss.
As your train jerks and moves on, your mouth has already been salivating for a few minutes now. You cannot hold up anymore. You give in and bite into your Vada pao and the pungent taste of Garlic, the savories of the boiled potato and crispiness of the Vada along with the softness of the pao compete to seduce your taste buds. It is the softness of the pao that eventually wins. Unfailingly fresh and hot, Diwadkar's have maintained a standard for which the Karjat Vada pao is known for.
There are many Vada pao outlets all over Mumbai, Pune and the rest of Maharashtra. Everyone has their favorites. For Vada pao not only triggers your taste buds but also your memories.
Memories of places visited and times gone by.
And here is one such nostalgic indulgence.
As you walk up the Dadar – tilak bridge from Dadar west, you come across Sri Krishna Batata vada. It is a thick crowd of commuters that have alighted the Dadar station and are bound to catch a bus that would alight at the Tilak bridge just a few staircases away. You pull out a coin as you straddle through the crowd, hand it out, pick up your token, walk to the next counter and pick your Batata vada wrapped in a newspaper with a green chilly and chutney for accompaniment.
On any given evening at Sri Krishna Batata vada at Dadar, a hundred Batata vadas are dispensed at the blink of the eye. You have no patience to stand and watch and take a bite. The commuters are gradually pushing your upwards to the bridge. You could be a college student, an office goer, a mill worker or a hawker. No one has the time or space to stand and watch. That is when you grab your Batata vada, tuck it in your hand bag and make your move.
As your bus pulls up, you board your bus and settle down in the usual window seat.
There is a mild haze in the air, birds from the trees of the Hindu colony in Dadar, are screeching their throats out to announce the onset of sunset. You look out of the window seat and realize that the sky is turning a blushing pink. Yet another day is coming to a close, you have had a long day of field work. Your destination is still another half hour to go and hunger pangs cannot wait until then.
That is when you unzip your bag, unwrap the oil soaked newspaper and pull out the Batata vada.
Unlike the Diwadkar's of karjat, Dadar's Sri Krishna do not serve you the pao, but just the 'Batata vada' - the potato fritters, along with the green chillies. You bite into the hot, pungent batata vada and the taste of mashed potato, spicy chilly and pungent garlic hits your taste buds all at once.
You experience bliss.
When you have finished eating your Batata vada and are still on the move, the taste still lingers on your taste buds for many more minutes.
But it is the memories that linger on for many many years to come.
P,S : Many many years later in a upmarket airconditioned mall in Bangalore, old friends catch up and reminisce .
This post is dedicated to all those TISSians of the '90s who boarded the Institute bus at the Dadar Tilak bridge in the evenings. .
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By Joe Martin in Reporting
I'm disappointed in Life Promotions, the organization that organizes the Lifest Festival each summer in Oshkosh, WI. (Full disclosure: I attended Lifest 2007 with my sister.)
Last year and this year, Lifest hosted the "Air Glory" ride at the festival. Air Glory is a bungee-jump type of ride, available for $25 a ride to festival attendees. Unfortunately, a girl died on the ride this year. Fond du Lac Reporter - Girl dies after fall from Air Glory free-fall ride at Lifest
A girl was killed in a fall from the Air Glory ride Saturday afternoon at Lifest.
The victim, who was not immediately identified, was taken to a local hospital, but Lifest officials made an announcement from the Main Stage about 9:35 p.m. that she had died.
The State of Wisconsin licenses all rides that operate in the state. The license is supposed to ensure that the ride is safe and that all operators meet the relevant criteria (being 18 or older). For the past month, state officials have been investigating the ride.
A few days ago, Lifest representatives said that Lifest bore no responsibility for the accident.
Mitch Lautenslager, vice president of operations and programming for Life! Promotions in Oshkosh, last week said the organization had no responsibility to check to see if Air Glory was registered or inspected in Wisconsin before it opened. "Everything we had done with Air Glory, all the homework, showed they had been cleared to go," Lautenslager said. "We didn't have any reason to believe otherwise."
Life! Promotions spokesman Wes Halula said Air Glory also appeared at last year's Lifest. "It's between the state and Air Glory," Halula said. "The onus is on Air Glory to keep up on all that paperwork."
I'm sorry, but I find this attitude unacceptable. Lifest invited Air Glory to appear at the event. Lifest promoted the event to thousands of parents and youth leaders as a fun, safe time. By putting Air Glory into their promotional materials, Lifest gave their stamp of approval to the ride. Like it or not, Lifest bore a responsibility to ensure that the ride was well-maintained, well-run, and -- above all -- safe.
It's not simply a matter of "keep[ing] up on all that paperwork". By it's very nature, state regulation is always going to be a hit or miss affair. Parents trusted Lifest -- not the State of Wisconsin -- to provide a fun, safe atmosphere for their children.
I believe Lifest had their own responsibility to check the ride before promoting it as an integral part of Lifest. That responsibility was a moral one, not a legal one. I would not sue Lifest for failing in that responsibility. Instead, I'll take my own responsible course: I no longer trust Lifest to provide a safe, fun event. I no longer trust Lifest to have executed due diligence before promoting an event.
Until Lifest takes responsibility for what happens at their festival, I will not be attending. My daughter will not be old enough to attend festivals for another 10-12 years. Lifest has that long to earn back my trust and prove that they're willing to do whatever it takes to keep her safe.
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LAW SCHOOL-SPECIFIC SCHOLARSHIPS (ABA-APPROVED)
The University of Akron School of Law – Scholarships – https://www.uakron.edu/law/admissions/financial-aid.dot
The University of Alabama School of Law – Tuition, Scholarships, and Financial Aid – https://www.law.ua.edu/admissions/tuition-financial-aid/
Albany Law School – Scholarships – http://www.albanylaw.edu/admissions/financial-aid/scholarships
American University Washington College of Law – Grants/Scholarships – https://www.wcl.american.edu/school/admissions/finaid/grants-scholarships/
Appalachian School of Law – Scholarships – http://www.asl.edu/scholarships/
The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law – Financial Aid and Scholarships – https://law.arizona.edu/financial-aid-and-scholarships
Arizona State University—Sandra Day O´Connor College of Law – Scholarships and Financial Aid – https://law.asu.edu/admissions/pay/scholarships-financial-aid
Arizona Summit Law School – Scholarships – https://www.azsummitlaw.edu/scholarships.html
University of Arkansas School of Law – Scholarships – https://law.uark.edu/alumni/scholarships.php
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law – Scholarships – https://ualr.edu/law/getthere/financial-aid/scholarships/
Atlanta´s John Marshall Law School – Loans & Scholarships – https://www.johnmarshall.edu/ajmls-students/financial-aid/financing/
Ave Maria School of Law – Scholarships – https://www.avemarialaw.edu/scholarships/
University of Baltimore School of Law – Scholarships – http://law.ubalt.edu/admissions/financialaid/law-scholarships.cfm
Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law – Scholarships, Grants and Stipends – https://www.barry.edu/law/future-students/financial-services/scholarship-options.html
Baylor University School of Law – Scholarships – https://www.baylor.edu/law/index.php?id=931900
Belmont University College of Law
Boston College Law School – Scholarships and Loans – https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/schools/law/admission-aid/jd-program/tuition-financial-aid/scholarships-loans.html
Boston University School of Law – Scholarships – http://www.bu.edu/law/admissions/financial-aid/scholarships/
Brigham Young University—J. Reuben Clark Law School – Scholarships – https://law.byu.edu/departments/admissions/tuition-and-scholarships/scholarships/
Brooklyn Law School – Scholarships and Grants – https://www.brooklaw.edu/Admissions/financingyoureducation/scholarshipsandgrants/meritscholarships?
University at Buffalo School of Law, The State University of New York – Scholarships – http://www.law.buffalo.edu/registrar/financials/scholarships.html
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law – Scholarships – https://www.law.berkeley.edu/admissions/jd/financial-aid/types-of-aid/scholarships/
University of California, Davis School of Law (King Hall) – Scholarships – https://law.ucdavis.edu/financial-aid/prospective/king-hall-scholarships.html
University of California Hastings College of the Law – Scholarships and Grants – https://www.uchastings.edu/admissions/financial-aid/scholarships-for-entering-students/
University of California, Irvine School of Law – Scholarships – https://www.law.uci.edu/admission/tuition-aid/types-of-aid.html#scholarships
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law – Gift Aid – https://law.ucla.edu/admissions/financial-aid/financial-aid-resources/
California Western School of Law – Scholarships and Grants – https://www.cwsl.edu/admissions-and-financial-aid/financial-aid/aid-programs/scholarships-and-grants
Campbell University, Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law – Scholarships – https://law.campbell.edu/apply/tuition-aid/scholarships/
Capital University Law School – Scholarship Opportunities – https://law.capital.edu/Scholarship_Opportunities/
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University – Scholarships and Grants – https://cardozo.yu.edu/admissions/jd-admissions/scholarships-and-grants
Case Western Reserve University School of Law – Internal Scholarships – https://law.case.edu/Admissions/Financial-Aid/Types-of-Financial-Assistance/Internal-Scholarships
The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law – Scholarships – https://www.law.edu/scholarships/
Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law – Fowler Law Scholarships – https://www.chapman.edu/students/tuition-and-aid/financial-aid/graduate/fellowships-endowments-scholarships/chapman-assistance.aspx
Charleston School of Law – Scholarships – http://charlestonlaw.edu/financialaid/scholarships/
The University of Chicago Law School – Scholarships – https://www.law.uchicago.edu/financialaid/scholarships
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology – Scholarships – https://www.kentlaw.iit.edu/current-students/tuition-and-financial-assistance/scholarships
University of Cincinnati College of Law – Scholarships – https://law.uc.edu/admissions-aid/tuition-and-aid/scholarships.html
City University of New York School of Law – Scholarships – http://www.law.cuny.edu/financial-aid/scholarships.html
Cleveland State University—Cleveland-Marshall College of Law – Guaranteed Scholarships – https://www.law.csuohio.edu/applytoday/financingyoureducation
University of Colorado Law School – Scholarships – https://www.colorado.edu/law/admissions/financial-aid/scholarships
Columbia University School of Law – Scholarship Grants – https://www.law.columbia.edu/financial-aid/scholarship-grants
Concordia University School of Law – Merit Scholarships – https://law.cu-portland.edu/admission-financial-aid/financial-aid/merit-scholarships
UConn School of Law – Scholarship & Grant Resources – https://www.law.uconn.edu/student-life-resources/student-finance/scholarship-grant-resources
Cornell Law School – Charles Evans Hughes Scholarship – https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/admissions/tuition/Charles-Evans-Hughes-Scholarship.cfm and Institutional Scholarships – https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/admissions/tuition/loans_options.cfm
Creighton University School of Law – Scholarships – https://law.creighton.edu/future-students/scholarships-financial-aid/scholarship-list
University of Dayton School of Law – Scholarships and Grants – https://www.udayton.edu/law/admissions/financial_aid/scholarships_and_grants.php
University of Denver Sturm College of Law – DU Scholarships – https://www.law.du.edu/financial-aid/tuition-and-financial-aid/du-scholarships
DePaul University College of Law – Scholarships – https://law.depaul.edu/admission/tuition-scholarships-aid/Pages/scholarships.aspx
University of Detroit Mercy School of Law – 1L Scholarships – http://www.law.udmercy.edu/admissions/1l-scholarships.php
University of the District of Columbia—David A. Clarke School of Law – Scholarships and Grants – https://www.law.udc.edu/page/FinAidScholarships
Drake University Law School – Scholarships – https://www.drake.edu/law/future/costs/scholarships/
Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law – Scholarships – https://drexel.edu/law/admissions/financing/Admission-and-Scholarships/
Duke University School of Law – Scholarships – https://law.duke.edu/admis/financial/
Duquesne University School of Law – Scholarships – https://www.law.duq.edu/admissions/tuition-and-financial-aid/scholarships
Elon University School of Law – Scholarships – https://www.elon.edu/e/law/admissions/tuition-and-scholarships/index.html
Emory University School of Law – Scholarships – http://law.emory.edu/admission/tuition-and-financial-aid.html
Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law – Scholarships – https://www.faulkner.edu/law/faulkner-law-admissions-2/financing-your-education/
Florida A&M University College of Law – Scholarship Opportunities – https://law.famu.edu/students/current-students/financial-aid/scholarship-opportunities/
Florida Coastal School of Law – Scholarships – https://www.fcsl.edu/admissions-scholarships.html
University of Florida, Fredric G. Levin College of Law – Scholarships and Grants – https://www.law.ufl.edu/life-at-uf-law/office-of-student-affairs/current-students/financial-aid/scholarships-grants
Florida International University College of Law – Scholarships – https://law.fiu.edu/lawadmit/scholarships/
The Florida State University College of Law – Scholarships – https://law.fsu.edu/admissions-financial-aid/tuition-and-financial-aid/scholarships
Fordham University School of Law – Merit Scholarships – https://www.fordham.edu/info/21347/fordhams_financial_aid
George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School – Scholarships – https://www.law.gmu.edu/financing/scholarships_mason
The George Washington University Law School – Merit Scholarships – https://www.law.gwu.edu/merit-scholarships
Georgetown University Law Center
University of Georgia School of Law – Scholarships – http://www.law.uga.edu/authentic-scholarships
Georgia State University College of Law – Scholarships and Waivers – https://law.gsu.edu/admissions/paying-for-law-school/scholarships-and-waivers/
Golden Gate University School of Law – Scholarships and Financial Aid – http://law.ggu.edu/admissions/scholarships-and-financial-aid/
Gonzaga University School of Law – Scholarships – https://www.gonzaga.edu/school-of-law/admission/financial-aid/scholarships
University of Hawai´i at Mānoa | William S. Richardson School of Law – Grants and Scholarships – https://www.law.hawaii.edu/grants-scholarships
Hofstra University—Maurice A. Deane School of Law – Hofstra Law Merit Scholarships – https://law.hofstra.edu/directory/departments/financialaid/typesofaid/hofstraaid/hofstrascholarships/index.html
University of Houston Law Center – Merit Scholarships – http://www.law.uh.edu/financialaid/scholarships.asp
Howard University School of Law – University Scholarships and Grants – http://law.howard.edu/content/prospective-students-financing-options
University of Idaho College of Law – College of Law Scholarships – https://www.uidaho.edu/law/admissions/tuition
University of Illinois College of Law – Scholarships – https://law.illinois.edu/admissions/tuition-aid/jd-aid-scholarships/
Indiana University Maurer School of Law—Bloomington – Scholarships and Fellowships – http://law.indiana.edu/admission/jd-apply/financial-info/scholarships-and-aid.shtml
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law – Scholarships – https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/admissions/jd/financing-your-education/scholarships.html
Inter American University School of Law
The University of Iowa College of Law – Scholarships and Fellowships – https://law.uiowa.edu/admissions/costs-and-financial-aid/scholarships-fellowships
The John Marshall Law School – Scholarship Opportunities – https://www.jmls.edu/students/scholarships/
The University of Kansas School of Law – Scholarships – http://law.ku.edu/scholarships
University of Kentucky College of Law – Scholarships – http://law.uky.edu/admissions/scholarships
University of La Verne College of Law – Scholarship Opportunities – https://law.laverne.edu/scholarship/
Lewis & Clark Law School – Scholarships and Awards – https://law.lclark.edu/offices/admissions/tuition_and_financial_aid/scholarships_and_awards/
Liberty University School of Law – Scholarships – http://www.liberty.edu/law/financial-aid/
Lincoln Memorial University—John J. Duncan, Jr. School of Law – Scholarships – https://www.lmunet.edu/academics/schools/duncan-school-of-law/admissions/scholarships
Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center – Merit-Based Scholarships – https://www.law.lsu.edu/admissions/financingyourlegaleducation/meritscholarships/
University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law – Scholarships and Awards – https://louisville.edu/law/admissions/tuition-aid/scholarships-awards
Loyola Law School, Loyola Marymount University – Law School JD Scholarships – https://financialaid.lmu.edu/lawstudents/scholarships/lawschooljdscholarships/
Loyola University Chicago School of Law – Loyola University Chicago Law Awards – https://www.luc.edu/law/admission/tuition-financial-aid/jd-programs/types-of-aid/index.cfm
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law – Scholarship Opportunities – http://law.loyno.edu/2018-scholarship-opportunities
University of Maine School of Law – Scholarships – https://mainelaw.maine.edu/admissions/financing-your-education/scholarships/
Marquette University Law School – Scholarships – https://law.marquette.edu/prospective-students/scholarships
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law – Scholarships and Awards – https://www.law.umaryland.edu/Prospective-Students/Tuition-and-Financial-Assistance/
University of Massachusetts School of Law—Dartmouth – Scholarships – https://www.umassd.edu/law/admissions/financial-aid/scholarships/
McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific – Scholarships – https://www.mcgeorge.edu/students/student-life/financial-aid-office/continuing-students/scholarships/
The University of Memphis—Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law – Scholarships – https://www.memphis.edu/law/admissions/scholarships.php
Mercer University School of Law – Scholarships – http://law.mercer.edu/admissions/financialaid/scholarships/
University of Miami School of Law – Scholarships – https://www.law.miami.edu/iml/financial-aid/scholarships
The University of Michigan Law School – Grants and Scholarships – https://www.law.umich.edu/financialaid/Pages/formsofaid.aspx
Michigan State University College of Law – Scholarships – http://www.law.msu.edu/admissions/scholarships.html
University of Minnesota Law School – JD Admissions Scholarships –
https://www.law.umn.edu/admissions/jd-admissions/tuition-financial-aid / Scholarships, Fellowships and Resources – https://www.law.umn.edu/admissions/equity-diversity-inclusion/scholarships-fellowships-resources
The University of Mississippi School of Law – Scholarships – https://law.olemiss.edu/admissions/tuition-financial-aid/
Mississippi College School of Law – Scholarships – http://law.mc.edu/admissions/tuition-financial-aid/scholarships
University of Missouri School of Law – Scholarship Programs – http://law.missouri.edu/financialaid/scholarships/
University of Missouri—Kansas City School of Law – Scholarships – https://law.umkc.edu/prospective-students/financial-aid/scholarships/
Mitchell Hamline School of Law – Mitchell Hamline Scholarships – https://mitchellhamline.edu/financial-aid/scholarships/
University of Montana—Alexander Blewett III School of Law – Scholarships – http://www.umt.edu/law/admissions/paying/default.php
University of Nebraska College of Law – Scholarships – https://law.unl.edu/prospective/financial-information/#tab2
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law – Scholarships – https://law.unlv.edu/admissions/jd/financial-aid
New England Law | Boston – Scholarships and Aid Programs – https://www.nesl.edu/admissions-aid/tuition-aid/aid-programs
University of New Hampshire School of Law – Scholarships – J.D. – https://law.unh.edu/admissions/financial-aid
The University of New Mexico School of Law – Scholarship Opportunities – http://lawschool.unm.edu/admissions/financial-aid/index.html
New York Law School – Scholarships – https://www.nyls.edu/admissions/tuition_and_financial_aid/scholarships/
New York University School of Law – JD Scholarships and Scholars Program – http://www.law.nyu.edu/financialaid/jdscholarships
University of North Carolina School of Law – Scholarships – http://www.law.unc.edu/admissions/financing/scholarships/
North Carolina Central University School of Law – Grants and Scholarships – http://law.nccu.edu/admissions/financial-assistance/
University of North Dakota School of Law – Scholarships – https://law.und.edu/students/scholarships.html
University of North Texas Dallas College of Law – Scholarships – https://lawschool.untdallas.edu/scholarships
Northeastern University School of Law – Scholarships – https://www.northeastern.edu/law/admission/jd/financial-aid/types/scholarships/index.html
Northern Illinois University College of Law – Financial Aid and Scholarship Resources – https://www.niu.edu/law/admissions/costs-and-funding.shtml
Northern Kentucky University—Salmon P. Chase College of Law – Scholarships – https://chaselaw.nku.edu/prospective/juris-doctor/tuition-and-scholarships/scholarships.html
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law – Scholarships and Grants – http://www.law.northwestern.edu/admissions/tuitionaid/grants/
Notre Dame Law School – Scholarships – https://law.nd.edu/admissions/tuition-aid/financial-support/scholarships/
Nova Southeastern University—Shepard Broad College of Law – Scholarships – https://www.law.nova.edu/prospective/scholarships.html
Ohio Northern University—Claude W. Pettit College of Law – Scholarship and Grants – http://law.onu.edu/admissions/scholarship_opportunities
The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law – Scholarships & Grants- https://moritzlaw.osu.edu/admissions/jd/scholarships-financial-aid/scholarships-grants/
University of Oklahoma College of Law- Scholarships – http://www.law.ou.edu/admissions/jd-program/financial-aid-and-scholarships
Oklahoma City University School of Law – Scholarships – https://law.okcu.edu/admissions/admissions-basics/scholarships/
University of Oregon School of Law – Scholarships – https://law.uoregon.edu/explore/scholarships-and-financial-aid
Pace University—Elisabeth Haub School of Law – Scholarships and Grants – https://law.pace.edu/admissions-aid/financing-your-education/scholarships-and-grants
University of Pennsylvania Law School – Merit Scholarships – https://www.law.upenn.edu/admissions/financing/applicants/merit-scholarships.php
The Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson Law – Merit-Based Scholarships – https://dickinsonlaw.psu.edu/admissions-aid/financial-aid/merit-based-scholarships
The Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Law – Scholarships and Need-based Grants – https://pennstatelaw.psu.edu/admissions/financial-aid/scholarships-and-need-based-grants
Pepperdine University School of Law – Scholarships – https://law.pepperdine.edu/admissions/financial-aid/domestic-applicants/scholarships/
University of Pittsburgh School of Law – Scholarships – https://www.law.pitt.edu/financialaid/scholarships
Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico School of Law
University of Puerto Rico School of Law – Scholarships – http://derecho.uprrp.edu/estudiantes/servicios-al-estudiante/asistencia-economica/
Quinnipiac University School of Law – Scholarships – https://www.qu.edu/schools/law/financial-aid/scholarships.html
Regent University School of Law – Scholarships, Grants & Tuition Discounts – https://www.regent.edu/school-of-law/admissions-aid/#tab-financial-aid
University of Richmond School of Law – Scholarships – https://financialaid.richmond.edu/law/scholarships.html
Roger Williams University School of Law – Scholarships – https://law.rwu.edu/admission/financing-your-legal-education/scholarships
Rutgers Law School – Scholarships – https://law.rutgers.edu/scholarships
St. John´s University School of Law – Tuition and Scholarships – https://www.stjohns.edu/law/admissions/tuition-scholarships-and-financial-aid
Saint Louis University School of Law – Scholarships – https://www.slu.edu/law/student-services/financial/scholarships/index.php
St. Mary´s University School of Law – Scholarships – https://law.stmarytx.edu/admission/financial-aid/scholarships/
University of St. Thomas School of Law—Minneapolis – Scholarships – https://www.stthomas.edu/law/jd/tuitionscholarships/scholarships/
St. Thomas University School of Law – Scholarships – https://www.stu.edu/law/financial-aid/types-of-aid/scholarships
Samford University, Cumberland School of Law – Scholarships – https://www.samford.edu/cumberlandlaw/scholarships
University of San Diego School of Law – Scholarship Programs – http://www.sandiego.edu/law/financial-aid/types/scholarships/
University of San Francisco School of Law – Scholarships – https://www.usfca.edu/law/admissions/tuition-aid/jd/types-of-aid/scholarships
Santa Clara University School of Law – Scholarship Opportunities – https://law.scu.edu/admissions/financial-aid/#scholarships
Seattle University School of Law –Scholarships – https://law.seattleu.edu/office-and-administration/student-financial-services/financial-aid-programs/scholarships
Seton Hall University School of Law – Scholarships – https://law.shu.edu/financial-aid/scholarships.cfm
SMU Dedman School of Law – Scholarships and Loans – https://www.smu.edu/Law/Admissions/Costs-and-Financial-Aid/Scholarships-and-Loans
University of South Carolina School of Law –Scholarships – https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/law/admissions/financial_aid/index.php
The University of South Dakota School of Law – USD Law School Scholarships – https://www.usd.edu/law/scholarships
South Texas College of Law Houston – College Scholarships – http://www.stcl.edu/admissions-aid/scholarships-financial-aid/college-scholarships/
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Transgender Day of Remembrance: To Fight For Trans Lives, Think Local
by Dharna Noor November 21, 2018 September 23, 2020
On Transgender Day of Remembrance, Sylvia Rivera Law Project founder Dean Spade talks about the lack of federal protections for trans people and how communities are fighting back at the local level
DHARNA NOOR: It's The Real News. I'm Dharna Noor in Baltimore.
November 20, millions across the world observe Transgender Day of Remembrance to give respect to trans lives lost that year. The day was founded 18 years ago to honor a trans woman sex worker Rita Hester, who was murdered in Massachusetts. A Human Rights Watch report shows that this year alone, at least 22 trans people have been murdered in the U.S. so far. 82 percent of them were women of color. This year, the day comes amid what many are calling attacks on transgender protections from the Trump administration. On Sunday, the Washington Post reported that the administration told divisions of the Department of Health and Human Services not to use certain terms in official budget documents for 2019. One of those words is transgender. Another one is diversity. And last month the New York Times leaked a memo from the Department of Health and Human Services showing the intent to establish a legal definition of sex as fixed, biological, and determined at birth.
Here to talk about all of this is Dean Spade. Dean is an associate professor at Seattle University School of Law. In 2002 he founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a nonprofit that provides free legal help to low-income people and people of color who are trans, intersex, and/or gender nonconforming. Thank you so much for being here today.
DEAN SPADE: Thanks for having me.
DHARNA NOOR: So I guess we should just take a minute to reflect first. I mean, 22 trans people killed this year so far; last year a record-breaking 27 trans people were killed. And in a piece you wrote for Truthout last month you argue that the right wing's attempts to erase transgender protections and trans people could lead to more trans people dying and struggling, especially poor transgender people and trans people of color. How, and why?
DEAN SPADE: Yeah, and I think–there's a couple of things. First, I would say that when we look at the number of 22 trans people killed, that is so profound and so heartbreaking, but we also need to really think about all the life-shortening conditions that trans people face. Right now all across the United States, trans women are living in men's prisons and detention centers. Trans people have extremely high rates of homelessness and poverty; 29 percent of trans people are living in poverty compared to 14 percent of the U.S. population. And when you look at people of color, trans people of color, you get into rates of 40 percent or more.
So the kinds of things that shorten your life, like not having access to healthcare, being homeless and living under the stress of that, experiencing discrimination, spending time locked up and not having the basics that you need in terms of nutrition and healthcare, all of those things are leading–are producing a lot of trans death that we can't even see just in the homicide statistics, which of course are already devastating. So I just want to sort of lift that up.
I think that the memo that was leaked that the Trump administration is, you know, planning some kind of redefining of sex is really important in some ways that maybe not everyone understands. One thing that's I think really significant is that in the United States there actually is no federal definition of gender. So every state agency and government body that you deal with has its own way of defining gender, whether it's the DMV in your state, or the Department of Health in the state where you were born, maybe, or how the prison manages people, or how the local shelters manage people. All of those places have different ways that they determine gender and that they do or don't let trans people be marked as the person sees themselves. And one of the sort of key strategies of trans activists for the last at least 20 years especially has been trying to improve all those local policies and practices so that trans people can be more well, can have a piece of ID that matches who we say we are so we don't have as much trouble with the police, maybe; just get through life and not deal with some of the kind of the worst exclusions and violence.
So the danger, I think one danger of this signal from the Trump administration about some kind of federal definition that might sort of be released through federal agencies is that that would impact all those local fights that we're doing, often at a very local or municipal level, because it's a huge signal from the federal government to say, you know, this is what we think it is, and it's the most retrograde definition possible from the perspective of trans people's survival.
So that's truly disturbing, both because it we might see it unroll–and a lot of local and state programs get federal funding. It might in some way impact them directly. And also because when something like that comes down even just in the news without having been implemented yet legally, you see changes happen in the lives of people who are dealing with some of the worst conditions. So trans people who are in the welfare office who are trying to get into the shelter already will feel the heat of that sort of news that trans people are not legitimate, and can be excluded or treated as if they're not trans.
And so that … you know, all of that is very disturbing in terms of the people who will be hit hardest are people who already have the most contact with state power, and who are the poorest and the most vulnerable to, kind of, violent state apparatuses like prisons, police stations, shelters.
DHARNA NOOR: And when the news about that memo came out last week, the Department of Health memo that the Times leaked, a lot of people responded by saying that the Trump administration didn't have the authority to roll back those protections. Do you think that that's true, that they don't have the authority and that they can't really do anything like this?
DEAN SPADE: Yeah. One thing I want to clarify about the protections thing. So one misunderstanding I think is also happening is I think because trans people kind of mainstreamed during the Obama administration–like suddenly there was a lot of, we were on the TV a lot, and we're on the, you see us more than you used to–a lot of people think things got better for us and that we were suddenly protected by laws and policies from Obama. For the most part not much changed for trans people. There were a few things the Obama administration began to work on changing, but most of them haven't landed in trans people's lives. Trans women are still living in men's prisons all across the country. That, I think, is just an example of what has not changed.
So it's not really, to me, just this sort of rollback on protections idea. It's also the implementation of a new kind of administrative danger of this new federal definition. So I think I just want to sort of help us think about that carefully.
The question of whether or not Trump has the legal authority to do this I think is a complex one. I think–you know, sometimes when you interview lawyers we have a tendency to say things like they can't do this because it's against the law. That is a good argument make in front of a court. But in reality if we look at the Trump administration we'll see that it's actually pretty lawless, and we need to think politically about this administration in that way. So we can see that, for example, as soon as Trump went into office, even before he'd changed anything in the immigration system, already immigration attorneys were reporting that immigration judges were finding against immigrants way more often than they used to. That the system became emboldened, the police became emboldened. That we can see that it's not just about what courts say.
Additionally, in terms of questions like can administrative agencies make a definition of gender that is drastically different and is retrograde–actually, administrative agencies have very wide berth by the courts. And as you know, the court system of the United States is dominated by white, straight people, right. I think something like 60 percent of judges are white men in the United States. And even though women of color are a fifth of the population, they're only 8 percent of state judges. And there's only three trans judges in the country. So if we really think about the likelihood–like, I'm not hanging my hat on the hopes that we can knock this down in court.
And one of the reasons that matters to me–of course we should do that fight. And you know, people will do that fight in court. But I think that one of the things this can turn our attention to is how can we immediately support trans people in our communities locally instead of waiting for courts to figure this out, hoping something good comes down which I'm not going to hold my breath on. Nor am I going hold my breath that the Trump administration will follow the law, because they don't in so many other areas. I'm thinking, how can people right now get connected to being a pen pal to a trans person in prison, which can drastically reduce the harm that person is facing? How can people right now help figure out whether or not the domestic violence shelters in their own city let trans women in as women? How can people right now be creating informal housing networks for trans people coming out of prison, or aging out of foster care?
I think that we can get demobilized when we assume that the courts will sort this out for us. And actually we need to be mobilizing community support for trans people under these conditions.
DHARNA NOOR: I think some people would hear you say that, though, and think, oh, with all of this, with all these attacks coming from the federal administration, there's so much less possibility to act at the local level. Is that true? Or are people finding that there's more they can do at the local level than the federal government might assume?
DEAN SPADE: In my opinion there's much more we can do at the local level than the federal government, right. I mean, of course, right now the federal government is a no-go for most of the things people were even trying to get through under Obama. Not that that was easy, or that all of that was going anywhere quickly. Oftentimes even the Obama administration would just make changes that were more surface changes to make them look progressive rather than actually changes that drastically change the lives of poor people, or imprisoned people, et cetera.
So my thing is the local level is really where it's at, both in terms of–for trans people, local policy has always been vital, making sure, you know, changing policies the level of the DMV, or changing policies level of the local shelter is life and death for trans people. And being in contact with trans people who are in the detention centers, prisons and jails in our cities and states, is vital, because they are essentially disappeared, right. Often they have no family ties. Often no one is watching what happens to them there.
So to me we can actually affect the most change–and, I think, for me, when people are connected to work that really helps people survive right now they also tend to be more mobilized around politics in an active way; not just a passive way of waiting for courts to do something, or occasionally posting something on social media, but actually taking part in their cities and states to figure out who's being harmed, and how that can change.
DHARNA NOOR: And this–I mean, all of these attacks come amidst a number of other ones from the Trump administration. I mean, they have threatened to ban transgender people from the military service, which many were outraged about. They've rescinded guidance to public schools for recommending that trans students should be allowed to use bathrooms of their choice. In May they also said they'd be making changes to their protections for incarcerated transgender people. Are all of these proposals just proposals? Or have any of these had any real effects?
DEAN SPADE: I think a key thing to just say–I want to just speak to the piece around trans people who are imprisoned right now. So I, just again, I think a lot of people, especially because of the existence of TV representations of trans women in women's prisons, believe that right now trans women are put in women's prisons, and they are not, with a very, very, very, rare exception. So that–to the extent that Trump is rolling things back it matters, because the existence of those attempts at policy change are, are hopefully part of this step on the way.
But what really tends to change things is people actually being heavily involved. So to me it's like, if you can get trans women to stop being put in the men's jail in your city through local activism with your city council, with their county council, if you can change it on that level, you're much more likely to win something. Right now it's hard to win this stuff in the Trump administration. So yes, they are rolling out- they a very clear anti-trans agenda. And one thing we can do is try to protect our localities from copying it by making sure that we're actually pushing for what we want in our localities.
DHARNA NOOR: Do you have any examples that you want to lift up of those sorts of local community efforts?
DEAN SPADE: Absolutely. I think there are a lot of good examples of this. One that is probably one of the most established is the organization Black and Pink. It is a national organization that has chapters all over that connects LGBT people who are incarcerated to pen pals on the outside, which can be a vital, vital thing for having people both–you know, so people inside the prison know that they have somebody on the outside; it makes them less likely to be as extremely targeted. And also it can mean establishing a relationship so that when the person gets out they know people, or have anyone who can do basic research for them on how to find housing, or how to get a job, or any pieces of that. And it can really be also, you know, suicide prevention. It can be a lot of–it's really life and death to make sure that trans people who are locked up are not isolated from communities on the outside.
So that's an example that anyone can do right now. Anyone can look at the Black and Pink website and find a pen pal, and that is–you know, and write a letter once a month. That is so deeply meaningful and direct work. I'm also really inspired by a lot of work that's being often led by queer and trans people and affects trans people but is it broadly for people, for example, in the detention centers. Like where I live in in Seattle there's a nearby very large detention center in Tacoma, and there is a very enormous movement to be outside the detention center to connect with families, to support hunger strikers inside the detention center, to get complaints out of the detention center about what's really happening there. It's privately owned by Jiya corporation and it is exploiting everyone in there, and not providing adequate food and medical care.
So that kind of work has a big effect on trans people, because we are people who are in that system, and also has trans and queer leadership, but isn't only trans work. So I think there's a lot of ways into this. One final example I'll give that I was really moved by is the work in Baltimore, actually, where you are; the jail support project that came out of the Freddie Gray Uprising, where people began to wait outside the Baltimore jail, and just who ever walked out they offer them, you know, rides, clothes, information about benefits; just a few basic things.
And to me that kind of work, when we're–given the kinds of attacks the Trump administration and more broadly the right in civil society are bringing down on the lives of people of color, queer people, people with disabilities, to figure out how we can create a people's infrastructure where we actually support each other and where we do it really unconditionally–like, we're here outside the jail; we don't care what you were charged with, we don't care anything except for that you deserve access to some very basic help that will hopefully help you not get arrested as soon as you walk out of the jail again, or not be targeted again by the police.
And so to me, I'm interested in trans versions of that kind of mutual aid, and trans participation in those mutual aid projects. And people are doing accompaniment programs. In Tennessee I met people who were doing, accompanying trans people to medical appointments so that you don't have to go alone if you're facing discrimination at the doctor. There's so many ways people are just trying to actually help each other out instead of only waiting for the government to get better.
DHARNA NOOR: OK. Again, Dean Spade of Seattle University School of Law, founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. Thank you so much for being on today, and thanks so much for your insight.
DHARNA NOOR: And thank you for joining us on The Real News Network.
Dharna Noor
Dharna Noor is a staff writer at Earther, Gizmodo's climate vertical.
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var ConfigStructure element.Sections

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							Label:     `Size`,
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							SortOrder: 70,
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							Scopes:    scope.PermWebsite,
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							// Path: carriers/usps/width
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							SortOrder: 72,
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							SortOrder: 74,
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							Scopes:    scope.PermWebsite,
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							Scopes:    scope.PermWebsite,
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							SortOrder: 80,
							Visible:   element.VisibleYes,
							Scopes:    scope.PermWebsite,
							Default:   `true`,
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							// Path: carriers/usps/max_package_weight
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							Type:      element.TypeText,
							SortOrder: 90,
							Visible:   element.VisibleYes,
							Scopes:    scope.PermWebsite,
							Default:   70,
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							ID:        "handling_type",
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							Type:      element.TypeSelect,
							SortOrder: 100,
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							Scopes:    scope.PermWebsite,
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							Type:      element.TypeSelect,
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							Visible:   element.VisibleYes,
							Scopes:    scope.PermWebsite,
							Default:   `O`,
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							ID:        "handling_fee",
							Label:     `Handling Fee`,
							Type:      element.TypeText,
							SortOrder: 120,
							Visible:   element.VisibleYes,
							Scopes:    scope.PermWebsite,
						},

						element.Field{
							// Path: carriers/usps/allowed_methods
							ID:         "allowed_methods",
							Label:      `Allowed Methods`,
							Type:       element.TypeMultiselect,
							SortOrder:  130,
							Visible:    element.VisibleYes,
							Scopes:     scope.PermWebsite,
							CanBeEmpty: true,
							Default:    `0_FCLE,0_FCL,0_FCP,1,2,3,4,6,7,13,16,17,22,23,25,27,28,33,34,35,36,37,42,43,53,55,56,57,61,INT_1,INT_2,INT_4,INT_6,INT_7,INT_8,INT_9,INT_10,INT_11,INT_12,INT_13,INT_14,INT_15,INT_16,INT_20,INT_26`,
							// SourceModel: Magento\Usps\Model\Source\Method
						},

						element.Field{
							// Path: carriers/usps/free_method
							ID:        "free_method",
							Label:     `Free Method`,
							Type:      element.TypeSelect,
							SortOrder: 140,
							Visible:   element.VisibleYes,
							Scopes:    scope.PermWebsite,
							// SourceModel: Magento\Usps\Model\Source\Freemethod
						},

						element.Field{
							// Path: carriers/usps/free_shipping_enable
							ID:        "free_shipping_enable",
							Label:     `Free Shipping Amount Threshold`,
							Type:      element.TypeSelect,
							SortOrder: 1500,
							Visible:   element.VisibleYes,
							Scopes:    scope.PermWebsite,
							// SourceModel: Magento\Config\Model\Config\Source\Enabledisable
						},

						element.Field{
							// Path: carriers/usps/free_shipping_subtotal
							ID:        "free_shipping_subtotal",
							Label:     `Free Shipping Amount Threshold`,
							Type:      element.TypeText,
							SortOrder: 160,
							Visible:   element.VisibleYes,
							Scopes:    scope.PermWebsite,
						},

						element.Field{
							// Path: carriers/usps/specificerrmsg
							ID:        "specificerrmsg",
							Label:     `Displayed Error Message`,
							Type:      element.TypeTextarea,
							SortOrder: 170,
							Visible:   element.VisibleYes,
							Scopes:    scope.PermStore,
							Default:   `This shipping method is currently unavailable. If you would like to ship using this shipping method, please contact us.`,
						},

						element.Field{
							// Path: carriers/usps/sallowspecific
							ID:        "sallowspecific",
							Label:     `Ship to Applicable Countries`,
							Type:      element.TypeSelect,
							SortOrder: 180,
							Visible:   element.VisibleYes,
							Scopes:    scope.PermWebsite,
							Default:   false,
							// SourceModel: Magento\Shipping\Model\Config\Source\Allspecificcountries
						},

						element.Field{
							// Path: carriers/usps/specificcountry
							ID:         "specificcountry",
							Label:      `Ship to Specific Countries`,
							Type:       element.TypeMultiselect,
							SortOrder:  190,
							Visible:    element.VisibleYes,
							Scopes:     scope.PermWebsite,
							CanBeEmpty: true,
							// SourceModel: Magento\Directory\Model\Config\Source\Country
						},

						element.Field{
							// Path: carriers/usps/debug
							ID:        "debug",
							Label:     `Debug`,
							Type:      element.TypeSelect,
							SortOrder: 200,
							Visible:   element.VisibleYes,
							Scopes:    scope.PermWebsite,
							// SourceModel: Magento\Config\Model\Config\Source\Yesno
						},

						element.Field{
							// Path: carriers/usps/showmethod
							ID:        "showmethod",
							Label:     `Show Method if Not Applicable`,
							Type:      element.TypeSelect,
							SortOrder: 210,
							Visible:   element.VisibleYes,
							Scopes:    scope.PermWebsite,
							// SourceModel: Magento\Config\Model\Config\Source\Yesno
						},

						element.Field{
							// Path: carriers/usps/sort_order
							ID:        "sort_order",
							Label:     `Sort Order`,
							Type:      element.TypeText,
							SortOrder: 220,
							Visible:   element.VisibleYes,
							Scopes:    scope.PermWebsite,
						},
					),
				},
			),
		},

		// Hidden Configuration, may be visible somewhere else ...
		element.Section{
			ID: "carriers",
			Groups: element.MakeGroups(
				element.Group{
					ID: "usps",
					Fields: element.MakeFields(
						element.Field{
							// Path: carriers/usps/cutoff_cost
							ID:      `cutoff_cost`,
							Type:    element.TypeHidden,
							Visible: element.VisibleNo,
						},

						element.Field{
							// Path: carriers/usps/free_method
							ID:      `free_method`,
							Type:    element.TypeHidden,
							Visible: element.VisibleNo,
						},

						element.Field{
							// Path: carriers/usps/handling
							ID:      `handling`,
							Type:    element.TypeHidden,
							Visible: element.VisibleNo,
						},

						element.Field{
							// Path: carriers/usps/methods
							ID:      `methods`,
							Type:    element.TypeHidden,
							Visible: element.VisibleNo,
						},

						element.Field{
							// Path: carriers/usps/cfgmodel
							ID:      `model`,
							Type:    element.TypeHidden,
							Visible: element.VisibleNo,
							Default: `Magento\Usps\Model\Carrier`,
						},

						element.Field{
							// Path: carriers/usps/isproduction
							ID:      `isproduction`,
							Type:    element.TypeHidden,
							Visible: element.VisibleNo,
							Default: false,
						},

						element.Field{
							// Path: carriers/usps/is_online
							ID:      `is_online`,
							Type:    element.TypeHidden,
							Visible: element.VisibleNo,
							Default: true,
						},
					),
				},
			),
		},
	)
	Backend = NewBackend(ConfigStructure)
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub