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Helen Dewey: Gap Year Images

Helen Dewey


Hi,

'Never been to India before?' The man sitting next to me on the plane laughed, 'well, you're in for a culture shock!' There was never a truer statement.

Helen.
 
 
Helen Dewey    A week later    First day of work    Welcome to India

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Newspaper Reporter, Chennai

A week later
Chennai

Helen Dewey: Gap Year Images
After a week in Chennai I have just about gotten used to the concept of a maid, but I still have a massive sense of guilt when I see her sleeping on a rug in the front room. To a Westerner it is degrading, but to Indians it is a way of like.

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First day of work
 Chennai

Helen Dewey: Gap Year Images I was dropped off at the offices like it was my first day of school. Mandira and Simon even came with me to see the Editor-in-Chief. He was rather complacent about my coming to work for his newspaper, and cheerfully described interns as 'cheap labour'. Good to know that journalism in India is similar to that in England!
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Welcome to India
 Chennai

Helen Dewey: Gap Year Images
My homestay host is Nandita Sreedevan, a yoga instructor who leads a very healthy lifestyle which is to my benefit as she does not believe that very spicy food are good for you (phew!) So my meals are delicious, full of tasty things I have never had before such as banana flowers and stems.

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