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I caught this while taking a morning walk, near Thekiyang Khua, a Bawm settlement, about 15 miles from the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. People had just started going about their morning chores as I was setting up my camera on a tripod. It is amazing how life has not changed much the last 40 years since National Geographic magazine published an article by Claus Deiter Brauns on the Mru (a related tribe) back in 1973. Thekiyang in only a day’s walk from Ruma Bazzar, the nearest urban center,… Continue

This is my third trip in search of the elusive Goyal (bos gaurus frontalis) into the Chittagong Hill Tracks. My first trip, mired by the death of a close relative of my host came to a disastrous end after I had contaminated Typhoid from drinking tainted water. My second attempt involved a two-mile trek through tough terrain to a Mru settlement and frantic last minute negotiations with the village Karbari, whose son agreed to take me to a watering hole that their Goyals frequent. Alas, we… Continue