April 19th, 2010
Another week. Another sphere of interest/concern in my Delhi blog. Retail Therapy it is.
There is so much fabulous stuff to buy in India, so much innovative craft, so many great markets and bazaars. I have shared some of my shopping sorties with you in the past in this blog (think Lajpat Nagar last week). So now, welcome to Retail Therapy.
I inaugurate this column with a different, very laudable take on shopping.
The article is a trifle oddly written, but the gist of it is that rubbish is being recycled into bags and clothing, which is a [...]
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April 18th, 2010
OK, so let me get the weather bulletin out of the way first.
It’s confusingly hot here in Delhi.
See what the front page of the venerable Times of India said, and you will see why I’m confused :
Suffice it to say that it’s been a day to stay indoors, which we did. And to pray that the electricity doesn’t conk out too often. So far, not so bad.
The good news is – Carine is walking over later on tonight, and we are going to sit and drown our sorrows with a bottle of [...]
Click to continue reading A rather rude SMS
April 16th, 2010
The patience of a saint.
That’s what is needed to survive Delhi at the moment. With temperatures well over 40 degrees Celsius every day, and constant power-cuts, my usual office routine of internet/scanning/printing has gone for a six. Combine that with our increasingly erratic internet connection, add in a soupcon of burnt out sockets, and you might just get some sort of inkling into what things are like here.
The morning’s papers said that it was 42.3 in Delhi yesterday, while simultaneously saying the hottest temperature in Delhi was 44 degrees on the Ridge, so I guess their brain [...]
Click to continue reading The tax man almost certainly cometh
March 22nd, 2010
I have been in a workshop all day, shamelessly abandoning Anjulie to her own devices.
Karan Thapar, a London-based friend, asked me to get involved with an amazing organisation called Udayan Care, which, in a nutshell, provides homes and as close to a family environment as possible, to abandoned children, orphans, street children, runaways. Through a network of homes, complete with mentor parents, children are raised in a familial environment, are placed in good schools, are educated in English, and nurtured and helped to overcome their traumatic early years. The stories of abuse and neglect I heard today were [...]
Click to continue reading Anyone for coffee ? Or an ice-cream ?
