ABSTRACT
In the early 1970s, I hitchhiked with my then partner through Eastern Europe to Ankara, Turkey. From there, we travelled by bus and train through Iran and Pakistan, spent six months in India and finally ended up in Bangladesh. On behalf a local development organisation, we made a village study about the power relations between poor and rich farmers and between women and men. We learned the Bengali language, went looking for an average (and thus isolated) village and lived in a hut for a year. At the time there was a serious famine in the country, which made the task quite difficult.
