Compassion in the most random of places…
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 7/27/2015. Song of the Day: “Dance with my Father” by Luther Vandrose. This comes from a conversation I had yesterday with a [...]
Day Eight: Do you have any Indian Sandalwood Oil? I cannot find sandalwood anywhere, ugh!!!
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 7/27/2015: Today’s agenda: (1) visit the permit office to tour Union Carbide; (2) first round of interviews with staff/administration and doctors; (3) [...]
Museum Visit: Remember Bhopal Museum
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 7/26/2015. Here is one photo. I will upload more later (the internet is slow tonight). Every photo gives the option of listening [...]
Day Seven: Snakes on a Plane – or no, I mean, snakes in the garden
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 7/26/2015. Before coming to India I binged on a Nat Geo docu-series on Netflix called Wild India, woof, hoping to get accustomed [...]
Day Six: What is Ethnography? Is it like, ethnic geography or somethin’?
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 7/25/2015. Being an ethnographer you are required to be in situations deviant from the (your) norm. You find yourself in places studying [...]
Sexist norms: We know they exist, but we can’t change them ourselves! Who will then?
By KAROLINA KOPEK: I cannot believe I have been in Shanghai for over two weeks. It feels like I have left USA merely a few days [...]
Day Five: Buddha is Peeing Bullets—aka, it’s raining…after all, ‘tis monsoon season
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 7/25/2015. I went to one of the local malls that is a fifteen minute ride in a tuk tuk, man, what an [...]
Day Four: Henry David Thoreau Would Be Proud!
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 7/24/2015. I am having a cup of Indian green tea on the veranda, reading the Stoic philosophy of antiquity, listening to the [...]
Day Three: Morning Prayers and Bespoke Kurta
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 7/23/2015. Day Three: Morning Prayers and Bespoke Kurta I drank caffeine last night at the soiree and was unable to sleep peacefully [...]