No Traffic! It’s a Holiday!
Mr. Zia, our guide, picked us up at the Dhaka guest house on Friday morning to begin our three-day driving tour of the northeastern part of Bangladesh before we head to Chittagong on Sunday. The 7-hour, 222 km drive from Dhaka to Sylhet was the most fascinating and terrifying road experience Kevin and I have […]
Everyone Flies First Class to Dhaka
The passengers on the flight from Dubai to Dhaka were altogether different from those on the Atlanta-to-Dubai flight. On the 13-hour flight from the US, the mostly male passengers were heading to war-torn Iraq and Afghanistan to do all kinds of work that most of us don’t even know about. Think government contract workers, special […]
Bangladeshi Time
We have been trying to get on Bangladeshi time, but it is proving difficult. It is 4:30 am. We are wide awake, sitting in bed with our computers on our laps, working on the dataset for the Asian University for Women. Because we are starving and we are in the middle of a tea plantation […]
