imbrianfellows

i recently stole something, and i have no intention of giving it back. First, some context: I am a HUGE fan of rooftops and balconies, which I imagine will be well-documented in my memoirs some day.  and despite the relatively spartan guest house I live in here, I was thrilled to find it came with [

about a week ago i decided to shave. i hadnt shaved in a while and had a quasi-strong beard going but figured it was getting a little itchy so it was time to go. as i busted out my beard trimmer, i figured hey, what the hell i’m in india where apparently 89% of all [...]

so i have been moved from my quarters within this guest house 3 times now…there was some painting going on and somehow i kept getting caught in the room that needed to be painted next.  there were also about 6 false alarms when i was told i needed to pack up all my belongings and [...]

an overdue post: so on feb 16th or 18th, (or somewhere therabouts) a Hindu festival went down.  this one was celebrating the goddess of education, and was quite the party.  I had been aware of the impending festival since I arrived a month before, as there were these half-discernible mud statues of

Everywhere I go there are snacks.  which is a wonderful motif that I highly appreciate.  I’ve been traipsing around villages and the city of Patna, getting to meet all kinds of people, sitting in lots of meetings, been to a couple workshops and info sessions, etc. etc. and everywhere i go there are

So there are all these little experiences that I had quickly forgotten about after returning to the states. and they are quickly creeping (or blitzing) back into my consciousness.  One of these is the incessant honking here in India (and what appears to be just about everywhere in the developing wor

similar to my alter-ego that seemed to be of interest to people before, times square brian, i think i’ve discovered a new self in the last year or so.  his name is south asian brain. after spending aroundish 5 months in Sri Lanka and now arriving to the Indian state of Bihar, i’m racking up [...]

well hello there reader (thats singular), its been a little while.  but i thought maybe perhaps we should get reacquainted, for formality’s sake.  i’ll go first – i’m brianfellows and i used to write some stuff over the last year when i was abroad in armenia and sri lanka working as a Kiva Fellow in