The half way point of 2020
Nothing like reaching the half-way point of The Year From Hell to make you stop and think, eh? The optimist in me likes to think that as we are about …
Category: India
So now it’s just “ & LOVELY”
Cracking name for a skin whitening product, don’t you agree? “& Lovely.” Formerly known as “Fair & Lovely”, the word fair (with its pernicious message) in this skin whitening cream …
22 March – 22 June
Sitting here, on a grey, muggy, overcast morning, waiting for the monsoon to break (day after tomorrow, we are told) the People’s Curfew of 22 March seems a lifetime ago. …
Of peacocks and other such gorgeousness
I’m feeling simultaneously both overwhelmed by the news/underwhelmed by the words of our political masters. So I’m going to eschew any discussion of Coronavirus, or whether or not the Chinese …
Poor dear Ladakh. Poor dear India
As I’m sure most of you will know by know, there has been a deadly confrontation in the Himalayas between India and China. It took place along the LAC (Line …
Meeting the emus of south Delhi
I kid you not. There is a pair of emus, living in a small neighbourhood park in Vasant Vihar, in south Delhi. There are loads of other birds there too, …