By Jose Alejandro Gonzalez-Suarez
Jose Alejandro Gonzalez-Suarez, Instructor of Construction and Environmental Technology at Tompkins Cortland Community College in Dryden, New York, was a 2019-2020 participant in the CAORC-AIIS Faculty Development Seminar to India. In this essay, he reflects on the many challenges facing India and how the country’s innovative solutions can offer hope in uncertain times. All photos are courtesy of the author.
Twenty hours and counting on various forms of public transportation—two trains, two planes, and I’ve crossed an ocean and had a stopover in a desert metropolis. Now in a taxi, on a much slower journey (several hours in New Delhi’s traffic), I am tired. I am in a foreign land. Why then, a familiarity?