October 13, 2006

• Connections

  So everyone in
  the Bangladesh community now is trying to figure out their connections
  to Mr. Yunus. …we apparently have a lot here and there.

  As I
  already said, several years ago (in 1997), Mr. Yunus came to Nashville.
  My relatives and the rest of the Bengali community in Nashville held a
  reception in his honor–which is when most of them spoke with him
  personally. I knew who he was back then (he’s always been a big name
  among Bengalis, South Asians, and economists), but I think I was out of
  town when he came to visit.

  Besides that, apparently in a village that I visited with my father back in 1998 in Bangladesh, Mr. Yunus’s house was the next one over from where we had dinner. Here’s a shot of me catching some coconuts beforehand. Arrow’s pointing out where from he his house is. Oh, and the village where he lent that initial $27 that began his experiment with microcredit was just nearby as well.

  Yeah I know, we’re kind of going to lengths here for a kind of six-degrees-of-Mr-Yunus. But, come on… KF

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