https://www.globalcitizenyear.org/updates/six-months-india-workaholics-and-arranged-marriages/ Global Citizen Year immerses HS grads in developing nations to live and work on the frontlines of today's global challenges during a gap year. Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:47:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.globalcitizenyear.org/updates/six-months-india-workaholics-and-arranged-marriages/#comment-528669 Thu, 23 Apr 2020 02:01:11 +0000 http://archive.globalcitizenyear.org/?p=42938#comment-528669 I love this young man’s writing. There is such a pathos about his choice of words and phrases. I am moved to believe that he looks upon the world and hears an echo of melancholy in its inhabitants. The way Levin presents his observations is not judgmental, it does not seem to have a whisper of negativity, his observations are written as a matter of fact, an understanding and acceptance that things in India are just as they are. I’m reminded of a scene in the movie Gandhi where he goes to a village whose indigo farmers are starving because the British won’t accept their crops as partial payment any longer. Gandhi stands at the doorway and looks out at the crowd, thousands of people and he says, “What we can do… we will try to do.” Levin seems to have taken a similar approach to his time in India, What he could do… he tried to do and for that, he has earned my respect.

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