Michael Sieburg

In the summer of 2001, while an undergraduate, I took a couple of weeks and traveled by train from Varanasi to New Delhi and then through Rajasthan to Mumbai, stopping off several times along the way. One stop was Jaipur where my friend Chuck had studied the previous year.

Unfortunately, today Jaipur was hit by multiple bomb blasts and at least 60 are dead and over a hundred are wounded.

Before I visited India, I was told, among many other things, that it is a colorful country. It was in Jaipur that I remember first really understanding what that meant. Under bright blue skies on very hot summer days, I can still remember the women in their beautiful and striking saris walking throughout Jaipur’s Old City, which tragically was the site of some of the attacks today.