Losar-la Tashi Delek! Happy Tibetan New Year!
Happy Losar to you all. As I explained in my most recent blog, Losar is the Tibetan New Year, and yesterday, by a stroke of amazingly good timing, we arrived …
It’s festival time here in Coorg
I have just returned from Namdroling Monastery, a Tibetan Monastery about a 30 minute drive away, where we were privileged to witness a stunning prayer ceremony marking the end of …
A quick hello from Coorg
In a county as vast as India, there will always be new things to see, new places to discover and however well travelled one is, there is always the fun …
BREAKING NEWS!!! HUG A COW DAY CANCELLED!
Well, that was quick! No sooner had social media – and this blog, she mentions modestly – burst out laughing at the directive to hug a cow on St. Valentine’s …
February 14th in India is…Cow Hug Day
Move over St. Valentine’s Day. Here in India we have been advised to ditch the westernised St. Valentine’s Day celebrations and rather, as per the notice issued yesterday by the …
Hanging out with the dogs in the Lodhi Gardens
This morning I went for a 14km walk round the Lodhi Gardens with my running/walking partner-in-crime Ripu. In between catching up on January’s news, we also stopped and petted and …