OCTOBER 2 – KOLKATA, INDIA: There is a bookstore on Park Street in Kolkata, India, that is in almost every aspect virtually indistinguishable from stores back home. Heavy glass doors open into an illustrious atrium of colorful titles, and display tables adorned to captivate even the most casual passersby. The store’s speakers ring out with […]
Read MoreThe hospitality question and the simple things in life: reflections from Khulna 0
SEPTEMBER 26 – KHULNA, BANGLADESH: When we arrived in Khulna, Bangladesh’s third largest city, we were greeted enthusiastically by Farrok’s friends, “the Babi family” (as with my last post, actual names have been altered). As members of Khulna’s Christian minority, they welcomed us into their home in the small Christian Para, an intimate community of […]
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SEPTEMBER 24 – DHAKA, BANGLADESH: “Excuse me, excuse me. From which country are you?” It was the same question I had heard hundreds of times in just over a week in Dhaka, Bangladesh. From shop owners and rickshaw walas. From a crowd of curious children during my walk through the slums. From university students socializing […]
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