Crying for the beloved country
Don’t know if you noticed, but lately I’ve been trying to be more upbeat and jolly-hockey-sticks-positive here in this blog. To be honest, I was fed up of the unpleasant …
Introducing Prince Harry Middleton
I have one of my Singapore-based climbing friends to thank for alerting me to this absolutely mad story from Punjab. While I was out walking this morning, Prapti Whatsapped me …
Your Hindi word of the day: “jadibooti”
As I mentioned a couple of days ago, here in India we have a prime Minister who gives lots of speeches and launches lots of slogans. Mr. Modi’s eloquence is …
#RasputinChallenge
There is seemingly no depths to which people will not sink, in their desire to stir up communal divisions in India. The latest round of hate-mongering involves 2 brilliant young …
Your Hindi words of the day – “tika utsav”
Before we start, and by way of introduction, I’d like to explain something to all my non-Indian/non-India based readers. We have a Prime Minister who launches a lot of campaigns, …
RIP Your Royal Highness
I won’t make this a very long post, nor will I rehash the late Prince Philip’s life – we’ve all got Wikipedia/the Beeb/vicious Twitter trolls to do that for us. …