Tag: Bangladesh

  • Junctions

    “Although I have enjoyed this last year in Chittagong enormously, I have resigned my post at Asian University for Women in order to look after my family.” — That’s a...

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  • Post-apocalypse Dhaka?

    WE had a cracking storm last night. I was out foraging for dinner and felt the pressure suddenly drop. A cold breeze rushed past, a foreshock of the coming storm....

    By Visuals

  • Indigenous Picnic in the Korean Export Zone

    Before it drifts too far into the past, I want to record here an extraordinary picnic and its aftermath. My colleague Dr. Ananda Vikas Chakma in the history faculty at...

    By Anthropology, fieldwork, Visuals

  • Flaming lanterns in the night sky

    The autumn full moon that marks the end of the rainy season monastic retreat is the day for a wonderful Buddhist festival here in Chittagong. This year it fell on...

    By Anthropology, fieldwork

  • 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...

    By fieldwork