Sarah Bufkin
Class of 2013
Essay in the May/June 2011 issue of the Carolina Alumni Review.
If I were to attempt to say what India did for me — what that summer changed in me, indelibly, what marks all the small moments and eddies of that experience left on the bare sand of my life — I might describe my first visit to a mining community near Kota.
I might talk about the interview I conducted with a woman, or I should say girl, named Kamla.
I might attempt to explain how my life changed then and there without warning, without a thunderclap, without me even realizing it.
Wall painting in Jodhpur, India Photo by Sarah Bufkin '13
