The views expressed in this column are the individualu2019s and donu2019t represent those of the paper Saying goodbye to home A s excited as I was to finally kick- off the most urgent leg of my fieldwork within South Asia through my visit to Bangladesh, I had to suppress the profound sadness I was feeling about leaving Delhi.

Iu2019ve been trying hard to allow myself to feel my emotions fully, but I was aware that in this instance, it would be crippling since the melancholia I was feeling was tinged with the knowledge of impending grief.