Humans of New York, meet the Goats of Bangladesh

GlobalPost

BANGKOK, Thailand — One muses on the pitfalls of attachment. Another stands in front of a ship and offers lore on the Titanic. A fearsome character is asked what he or she thinks about an upcoming visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The interviewees, however, aren’t people.

Humans of New York, meet the Goats Of Bangladesh.

The beloved Facebook page features in-depth “interviews” with the animals, ubiquitous in the South Asian country’s capital, Dhaka, and in the countryside. In each post there's a picture and a quote that is at turns witty or reflective.

It’s “Real Goats. Real Stories.”

The page was born almost a year ago on an October morning in Dhaka, when Sadman Sakib Rahman was going through his Facebook feed and saw a post on the Humans of New York page.

“I was interested in finding something with the same concept but for Bangladesh. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything which quite grasped the concept of HONY,” he recalled in an email interview, using the acronym for the page. “So I thought about doing something similar to HONY but not a mockery of it yet having a different vibe to it.”

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