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 [...]
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). [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Day Two: Rickshaws, Indian Rum and Cattle, Yeehaw!
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 7/23/2015. “I’m in India,” the reality sits in and not just India, but Bhopal, India. The site of the 1984 chemical disaster [...]
Blame it on the Onion: Food and Indian Politics
We're excited to announce that one of our ICI friends, New School for Public Engagement Professor and Food Studies Coordinator Fabio Parasecoli, just published an [...]