This does not, however, make them curious, wondrous people. It just makes them people who differ from the majority people (as much as they often differ from each other).

More and more social scientists have started to point out that there is in fact no suitable definition of ‘tribe’. People use it and seem to know exactly whom to use it for. But when they are asked to explain what the term means, no one is able to do so.

The winter season is the time when Bangladesh takes on a particularly eerie beauty, strangely enough never exploited by any tourist-department or talked about in any books. That Bangladesh, inspite of its many misfortunes, is a country of great scenic beauty seems to be virtually unknown, sometimes even by the people inhabiting it.