Responses to ‘Festivals and Freedom’
ChrestomatherThe responses to my post ‘Freedom and Festivals’ suggest that I am not in as small a minority as I had thought.* Salil Tripathi worked…
Festivals and Freedom
I have never attended the Jaipur Literary Festival; nor does a visit loom in the foreseeable future. This is largely (but not wholly) because I have no taste for…
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The survey that Isabel is doing is a ‘direct count’ survey – which means that she is trying to physically count every member of the…
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Yesterday the ‘Pol Pot times’ burst upon us unexpectedly. We were in a taxi, driving to Sambok when Mr Seng Kim said, suddenly, that compared to…
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Mr Somany and I were talking earlier in the evening and he told me that his…
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January 10, 2003 Arrived in Stung Treng this afternoon. We left the village where we’d stayed at 7 a.m. The night was a horror: there…
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Do you ever wonder, I asked Isabel, what the world looks like to Orcaella? Yes, she said, sometimes. Why for example did the dolphin that was caught…
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Once we start moving there is no doubt at all that Isabel is in charge – completely in charge. She’s absolutely the captain of her…
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Most women field biologists, Isabel says, take it more or less for granted that they will not marry or have children or indeed, any kind of domestic life (although…
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In watching Isabel administer this survey, it occurs to me often that this procedure and everything it entails, is exactly the opposite of what it means to study…