Tag Archives: Shripur

Danger, Will Robinson

Sep 15, 2003 – 8:28

While I don’t usually use words like peaceful to refer to Birganj, I must say that last night’s triade of bombings in my hometown came as a surprise. Two of the bombs were at offices to the north of Birganj proper.
One, however, was located not far from Shripur.
I can’t remember when exactly, but last [...]

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Introducing Alfred

Feb 23, 2003 – 8:23

I was out doing the bidding of Peace Corps when I met Alfred. He’s the headsir of St. Xavier’s, a private school next door to Shripur, a government secondary school where I had been doing some scouting for a possible site for a volunteer.
St. Xavier’s facade suggested that it was an upper-tier school. Like its [...]

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