ABSTRACT
Nilphamari is seemingly a sleepy town in the north of Bangladesh closer to the Indian side of Bengal. The structural organisation of neighbourhood is resonant with the face-to-face familiarity, communicative intimacy, mundane exchanges almost in continuum with the kinship network. Moreover, there is an affective-sensorial scheme in which socio-spatial life is organised. It is however never immune to historical encounters and meditation of various factors. One such factor is the practice of “viewing television together”, characteristic of the household as well as public spaces of adda. A sense of a reorganised, if not entirely newly organised, neighbourhood reflects if we factor in the practice of television viewing in Nilphamari. This chapter examines the forging of relations and perpetuity of prejudiced perspectives in the novel formations of the neighbourhood through a quasi-ethnographic engagement with the narratives from Nilphamari.
