Recently, I read a beautiful book called “Shooting Water” by Devyani Saltzman. Shooting Water is about the process of filming a documentary called Water, which focused on the lives of three widows in an ashram in Varanasi, India. Saltzman is the daughter of Deepa Mehta, who wrote and directed the film. Surprisingly, there was a…
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I wanted to quote an excellent blog post by Karen, a grad student in international affairs: We are trained to think like short term consultants. Everything is project/program based. We are trained to measure everything through statistics, through case studies. A project seems to be measured as “successful” if you get it funded by a…
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