Essays

Field notes & Essays

Essays, field notes, and reflections on digital politics, everyday life, and teaching anthropology in Bangladesh.

Since 2006, my writing has lived across blogs, online forums, and social media—quiet observations, political reflections, fragments of memory, and field notes from a changing Bangladesh. What began as experimental blogging slowly became a long-term practice of documenting the digital public sphere, social movements, and the intimate textures of everyday life.

Long before I became an anthropologist of the digital, those early posts were already small field notes—attempts to understand how people speak, hope, resist, and transform in online spaces. From Somewhereinblog to Facebook to academic journals, my writing has followed me through different versions of life: student, researcher, teacher, and witness to a country always in motion.

For nearly two decades, I have written at the intersection of personal narrative and political imagination: Shahbag, the July Revolution, digital activism, everyday Dhaka, and the fragile architectures of our online public sphere.

This blog brings those pieces into one home—a living archive and a continuation of that long conversation.