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September 1st, 2010
I left you yesterday to head out into Delhi’s evening traffic, ready to “horen plese” as I drove to book club. We had a lovely evening courtesy of Pamela, but tinged with sadness at yet another departure, since it was Kerry’s last book club.
I won’t get all maudlin on you, but all these departures are getting to me. There are too many in too short a period of time, coupled with the fact that we have been here nearly 5 years now, so my own ex-pat internal alarm clock is telling me it surely must be time for [...]
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August 31st, 2010
Another hot, sticky day in Delhi, with a dull grey sky and no hint of rain or a good storm to relieve the atmosphere.
I was out and about this morning, going for my regular knee physio at my wonderful physio/gym in Shaikh Serai, Back 2 Fitness. However despondent I get about the pain I still have in my knees, the people at the gym manage to calm me down and cheer me up. I had a review this morning with my trainer Neha and with Dr. Chauhan, who once again exuded his quiet, reassuring confidence that my knees [...]
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August 30th, 2010
Daughter dearest and I came up with a great way to start the week.
Banish those irritating Monday morning blues by going jewellery shopping. Highly recommendable.
Off we went to Sunder Nagar, just as our favourite shop Navrattan was opening, and happily shopped away. If the truth be known, we mainly shopped for presents for other people, but there’s nothing like looking at beautiful stones and old silver bracelets and gorgeous antique jewellery to start the week on a truly positive note.
Minds you, I think we deserved our retail therapy after driving around this fair capital city this [...]
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August 29th, 2010
The much-touted, self-created image of Delhi as a world class city – a cliché much-loved by the local press and politicians – has taken a beating of late, with all the Commonwealth Games bumbling and apparent incompetence.
But if anyone still harboured an illusion that Delhi is, well, kind of on the right track, sort of getting there, then a front-page article in today’s Hindustan Times should make every single person who lives in this city, me included, deeply, deeply ashamed.
It shows a callousness which is beyond unforgivable.
I often get enraged at what I [...]
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August 28th, 2010
I left you last night as I was heading out to Mens’ Fashion Week, right ?
So the 4 of us went to our cousin Ashish Soni‘s show, and it was all great fun. A glass of wine with Deepika and Navneet Sindhu while we waited. A quick chat with Misha Grewal Soni, radiating smiles and calm amidst all the cameras and crowds of people. Lots of well-known faces in the audience, and of course, the show.
The theme of the collection was checks (and not cheques as the Times of India quaintly wrote earlier this week), and what [...]
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August 27th, 2010
Today has been a long day, and the evening is but young.
After a lazy couple of weeks, I was up with the larks this morning, and took Yoda for a yomp at the club.
Muddy doesn’t begin to describe the state of the trails, but we had great fun, and Yoda’s 2 canine NBFs joined us.
I know, I know, I am slowly turning into a caricature of the quintessentially dotty English woman, striding out with a pack of motley dogs, but what to do ?
The jungle/forest at the club was ridiculously green and [...]
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