The Roshan board met in Kabul this week, so the previous weekend had zero sleep for the interns and busy days! Long story, but my meeting with a separate board member ran over and so I found myself bouncing along in a van with my laptop trying to explain a database. The plus side was that I got another visit to Bagh-e-Babur, the biggest green space I've found in Kabul and the tomb of Babur, the poet, conqueror of Afghanistan and much of India, and first Mughal emperor. A nice place, made nicer by the special tour by the head of the institute (funded by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture) that re-built the gardens after they were destroyed by firefights between competing warlords in the 1990s. Also see pictures below this section for the Roshan dinner. All pictures courtesy of Alyza from our first visit:
A mosque built by the descendants of Babur, and thankfully largely spared by mujahideen bullets.
A fat kid along the path of Bagh-e-Babur.
Little girls playing at the gardens. During the Taliban period, women were arrested if they came to the gardens without their husbands. Last visit, I actually saw a couple holding hands.
Kids playing at Babur Gardens.
A view of the interior courtyard of the palace.
After a long day of meetings, the board had dinner with some of the local and expat staff back at the office. They even let interns in. Picture below of the intern gaggle and a few Afghan national staff. From the left: Khalid (Afghan), Salimah (Canadian intern), Dildaramin (Afghan), Farouk (Canadian intern), Sohaila (Afghan), Francisco, Alyza (Canadian intern, HBS2), Ameel (Canadian intern, HBS1).
A fat kid along the path of Bagh-e-Babur.
Little girls playing at the gardens. During the Taliban period, women were arrested if they came to the gardens without their husbands. Last visit, I actually saw a couple holding hands.
Kids playing at Babur Gardens.
A view of the interior courtyard of the palace.
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