A shorter fieldwork update on Bhagalpur (I will make it longer later).

On 12 February I drove with Jeta Singh, a soldier, and a driver to Tapovardhan Prakritik Chikitsa Kendra in Bhagalpur. Jeta Singh is the son of freedom fighter and naturopath Sadanand Singh, who was asked by Gandhiji to establish the centre.

I stayed in a newly built mud house while the centre was being rapidly expanded, as Jeta had recently received government funding. Since I was the first foreigner to visit, they were quite excited and even published a short article about it in Jagran. Jeta and I spoke at length about naturopathy, nonviolent resistance, and his family’s history. On my last day, before leaving, we visited Vikramshila together.