Day Ten: A NEW Day Has Come…
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 07/29/2015. This morning, I would like to start off with one of my favourite quotes. I found it a few years ago [...]
Waiting for the flight from New Delhi to Bhopal — my airport brother from Bhutan.
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 7/29/2015. People you meet once can change the way you see yourself and the world around you. I now have a brother-friend [...]
Day Nine: Sandalwood, Kurta, and a Rickshaw = Atiba’s in Heaven!
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 7/29/2015. I finally found sandalwood after a few days search!!! (Yes, Lex, I will be bring some for Ava, she’ll smell charming). [...]
Union Carbide Tour—ghost of Decembers past
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 7/28/2015. It’s 4 am in Bhopal. I am up doing prep work for later today. A few of us will be taking [...]
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 [...]