So. Farewell then, Rajpath
I’m no E. J. Thribb, so I won’t write a poem. Instead, I’ll confine myself to the bare facts. Today, yet another deemed colonial vestige was obliterated from the Delhi …
Category: India
My Hindi word of the day: Kartavya
On a day when one of Delhi’s most iconic roads – if not THE most iconic road – was hastily renamed Kartavyapath, there could be no other word of the …
Where do I start…?
It’s been a while since I blogged, I know. Although I’ve been fortunate and have thus far “escaped” Covid, its effects have impacted me more than I expected. Lots of …
How to lose 154,000 years of tree life
I learned something very sobering this morning about trees. And then the day brought even more tree gloom. Please bear with me, dear reader, and let me share with you …
“Solution in 72 hours…”
It’s been a while since I had a cracking flyer tucked inside my morning paper, but today’s your lucky day, dear reader 🙂 This thing of beauty tumbled out of …
In which I learn that I live in a heat island
Not what you think, oh reader dearest. Not. At. All. I have this morning discovered that the reason for the monsoon still not arriving in Delhi is, and I quote …