August 1st, 2010
At last it is raining. As I write, it is bucketing down.
Yesterday we had a huge downpour in the morning, and we all got caught up in the ensuing (and seemingly inevitable) chaos, traffic jams, and water-logging. It rains every single year here, at the same time, and yet every year it’s the same scenario - mess, traffic jams, blocked drains.
I went off bright and early yesterday morning, to meet a sports doctor and phsyio about my still-aching knees. I hope first impressions don’t count, because I arrived horribly late, due to the rains. Within 20 minutes, [...]
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May 26th, 2010
The May issue of “Discover India” has an article of mine about the hotel we always stay in when we visit Kaziranga.
I am experimenting with the most effective way of uploading articles to the blog, so can you please let me know whether this link opens effectively or not ?
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Hope you enjoy reading about Kaziranga, one of the country’s very special places. One word of warning, though - the article has been heavily edited, and so is not exactly the way I write…
May 22nd, 2010
However much one wants to protect wildlife, it is nevertheless shocking when you see pictures of dead poachers on the TV news. Let’s just hope these 4 poachers were more than “gofors”, other wise their deaths will have little impact.
May 6th, 2010
There are days. And then there are Days.
Today was definitely One Of Those Days.
Forget the heat, forget the humidity, which means that the desert cooler just can’t cope any more. Forget the UK elections in which I can’t vote (don’t get me started on that one).
Let me just focus all my negative energies and vituperative thoughts on Delhi drivers, who have to rank amongst the rudest, noisiest, most pointlessly aggressive, downright bad drivers. Except, of course, the unbelievably polite bus driver who scraped my car on Lodhi Road today, scratching it badly in the process.
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