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 [...]
Day One: 24 Hours Later—where is my plane!?
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 7/22/2015. Day One: 24 Hours Later—where is my plane!? After leaving my apt in NYC on Monday, July 20th @ noon, I [...]
First post from Bhopal, India.
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 7/15/2015. My first post from Bhopal is the letter I sent in November of 2014. In order to understand where I [...]
Reading Material for the Flight
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 7/15/2015. I received my copy of Harper Lee's new book, Go Set A Watchman, in the mail today. This book will keep [...]