Set up some appointments to talk to people, so feeling less deskbound. Talked to Sabina Faiz Rashid, a medical anthropologist, about some of the difficulties in research with people living in slums. (She asked, 'You're going to be here for at least a year, right?' Umm...).
Today I'll be going to the Centre for Urban Studies who conducted a slum census, to talk about possible study sites.
Leisure-wise I went to the zoological gardens with my flatmate Hailey.
Very peaceful and nice to get away from the pollution of the city, but many people ignored the animals to stare at us and take photos.
The rhinocerous is a friendly and pacific animal that likes nothing more than to be teased by children with sticks.
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Are you going to put this blog in your thesis? Go on.
how long had this rhino been in the bath for? Or was there an exit we can't see? It seems strange that in a land where so many exotic creatures exist in the wild, that people visit a zoo to see them.........OK not the rhino perhaps...
I think it had been in the bath a while with little prospect of coming out, poor skinny diseased thing. There aren't many rhinos wondering around Dhaka generally so I can understand people going there.
Anonymous commenters, please could you leave your name so I know who's talking?
perhaps the reason that Dhaka residents don't see so many rhinos wandering around is because they are all stuck in their baths?
Steve
anonymous writes......Steve says it was him.
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