Category: Travel

• October 28, 2017

  Language Hunting in Pakistan: A Road Trip to Gilgit

  It was summer 2010. After several stressful attempts over 3 years, I received a visa for a research trip to Pakistan. A plethora of investigations, letters of invitation, and even a sufarish from people with contacts in the Interior Ministry hadn’t helped. But this time the process got really smooth. I wrote an impassioned letter…