Last week, I returned from a rural village in Bangladesh to its capitol city of Dhaka. Left with my research and some photographs as the only “proof” of our stay, the view looks rosy: a bucolic local existence that city people harken back to. But there’s a lot left to be desired. Too much has […]
Ok, so it’s technically a little late to be called Friday Fiction, but if you’ll forgive me a few hours, here’s the start of my next writing project: She woke to the sound of house geckos meeting on the top of her mosquito net. They looked down on her with their beady eyes and […]
These past four days, I have been conducting my very first interviews on Bangladeshi perceptions of madness and mental health – I jumped in feet first with some of (what I consider) my most challenging interviews with people in Bahadurpur, a rural village in Kushtia, Bangladesh. These villagers spoke no English and often had troubles […]