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...Angeles, Carol Archer, 40, was assigned by the Shanti Foundation, another AIDS support group, to attend to the needs of a dying 31-year-old patient. He was alone; family and friends had withdrawn from him as lesions spread over most of his body. When Archer helped him with his will and funeral arrangements, he began to sob. She reached out, hugged him and rocked him in her arms. "He cried all the harder," she recalls, "then he looked up at me and said, 'No one's touched me in so long...
Looking back, Shanti Debi thinks it was the night her husband Kishen Chand went blind that she first saw things clearly. Awakened by her daughter screaming that she was suffocating, Shanti thought she could smell burning chilies. The next moment, everyone was being sick. And right then, Shanti's life, and Bhopal's social fabric, began to disintegrate. "Everybody just rushed out," she says. "Nobody cared about anybody else. I even left my own children. Everybody just cared about saving their own life...
...Shanti, now 60, the past 20 years have been one long revelation about the frailty of community. "I've learned how people really are," she says. "The people who used to work in our factory blank me in the street. Even my relatives didn't want to help me." She says she has learned to adjust to poverty but not to the other changes in Bhopal. "After Kishen died, I faced a lot of problems. So did a lot of families. But people were just asking for money, always money. I was never begging for money. I was begging...
...such hot topics as homophobia within the black community, obscuring former boundaries and inducing laughs while discussing “sexuality, health, love, faith, and fear.” Includes performances by Kuumba, Baron Wright, Spoken Word Society, Oke Iweala, Shadow Box, the ’O5 Steppers, and Shanti Hubbard. 8:00 p.m. Tickets $7 general, $5 students (2 per ID), $5 Harvard ID Holders (2 per ID). Lowell Lecture Hall...
...when my sister Maureen visits, my mother tells her to sleep on the floor. Funny, but I have no recollection of any of this. Nor do I remember conducting an impromptu yoga class at my wedding reception. (I promise you, no one at my wedding was chanting Om or Shanti...