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  • Inaugurating a monastery

    This last Saturday, 19th Sept. 2018, I was lucky to be part of the inauguration of a new Buddhist vihāra here in Chittagong. I was invited by Dr. Ananda Vikas...

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  • Very quiet sounds

    Chittagong is a raucous tumult. The racket is penetrating and ceaseless: horns, screams, brakes, creaking ceiling fans, the tinnital whine of tube lights, the grind of suffering transmissions, rickshaw bells,...

    By fieldwork, Serendipidity

  • Sorting things

    When I first arrived in Chittagong, almost two months ago, I walked everywhere trying to get the measure of the place. Perhaps I felt a bit like one of the...

    By Anthropology, fieldwork, theory, Visuals

  • Beacons

    My suspicion, before coming to Chittagong, was that it would have a vigorous and well-informed public culture. That suspicious was based on two romanticised scraps of knowledge. First, when I...

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  • Arrivals

    Now that I have arrived in Chittagong to work at Asian University for Women, I will be posting more frequently than of late. Building a business and growing children are...

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