I have finished all of my interviews! It is very exciting. I went to the field Thursday til Sunday to complete eighteen interviews in five villages, and it was excruciatingly exhausting. I'll post something later that goes into it a little bit.

In other news, Juliana, a girl at my guest house, destroyed my world today when she unveiled the true origin of the word 'Thug'. Although I thought it to have been a direct descendant of the American hip-hop scene, it is in fact a word derived from the Hindi 'Thuggee'. They were bandits that committed mass tourist murders, eventually eliminated by the British (of course). In some ways this is actually more cool than what I used to think of the word but come on, Hindi?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee