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Book Review: Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
My rating: 4 of 5 starsI almost never read the reviews of others before writing my own review. I don’t want to be coloured by the opinions of others and reviews are, always, merely our opinions turned into judgements. There’s no point me writing a review then if I’m just going to parrot the views […]
Book Review: The Darling Buds of May by H.E. Bates
My rating: 4 of 5 stars I read Bates’ ‘Love For Lydia‘ last year and was not especially entranced by either the writing or the whole raison d’etre of the story. Rich people being boringly melodramatic doesn’t fill me with a great deal of sympathy for the characters, to be honest. ‘The Darling Buds of […]
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Tag Archives: Hinduism
Protected: An Adventure in Rangamati (or How to gatecrash a Chakma wedding and get away with it) – Part Three
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Protected: An Adventure in Rangamati (or How to gatecrash a Chakma wedding and get away with it) – Part One
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Posted in Bangladesh, Culture, Religion, Travel
Tagged Buddhism, Chakma, community, cross-cultural wedding, Hinduism, Kaptai Dam, Muktasree Chakma Sathi, Rangamati, travel, weddings
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Fear, Friendship and the Art of Praying
I stepped into the room of the Guest house at LAMB and I could feel fear rising in my throat. There must have been twenty or so people there and most of them I knew well, yet I was extremely … Continue reading
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Tagged age, Bangla, Bangladesh, Britain, children, Christianity, culture, Differences, friends, God, Hinduism, Islam, LAMB, language, life, Muslims, myers-briggs, Prayer, relationships, Religion, women
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